Georgia Cas. & Sur. Co. v. Turner, 17764
| Decision Date | 10 March 1952 |
| Docket Number | No. 17764,17764 |
| Citation | 69 S.E.2d 771,208 Ga. 782 |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
| Parties | GEORGIA CASUALTY & SURETY CO. v. TURNER et al. |
Martin, Snow & Grant, Macon, for plaintiff in error.
Miller, Miller & Miller, Wallace Miller, Jr., Macon, for defendants in error.
Syllabus Opinion by the Court.
1. A petition seeking a declaratory judgment is not per se an equitable action, Felton v. Chandler, 201 Ga. 347, 39 S.E.2d 654, nor is it converted into an equitable action merely because the court may grant a temporary restraining order to 'maintain the status' pending an ajudication with 'respect to rights, status and other legal relations.' Declaratory Judgments Act, Ga.L.1945, p. 137, Code Ann.Supp., § 110-1102; Milwaukee Mechanics' Insurance Co. v. Davis, 204 Ga. 67, 48 S.E.2d 876; Findley v. City of Vidalia, 204 Ga. 279, 49 S.E.2d 658.
2. An allegation that the 'petitioner * * * has no adequate remedy at law,' and an allegation by amendment that an adjudication as to the legal rights of the parties under an 'exclusion' provision in a policy of insurance will prevent a multiplicity of suits, must be construed in connection with the facts alleged, and the prayers of the petition, in determining the nature of the action. Legal questions are not changed in character by the Declaratory Judgments Act, or by allegations which might be germane in an action for equitable relief. In the present case, a declaratory judgment construing an 'exclusion' provision in a policy of insurance, and the respective legal rights of the parties thereunder, is the only substantial relief prayed. The legal relief sought is, on review, within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals, and not this court. Constitution, art. 6, sec. 2, par. 4, Code, Ann.Supp. § 2-3704.
Transferred to the Court of Appeals.
All the Justices concur.
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