Blackshear v. Blackshear

Ingram, Justice,

dissenting.

Appellant’s motion insists that the validity of the divorce decree here involved was properly challenged in the original appeal. This issue was obscured by appellant’s failure to provide a transcript of the evidence considered by the trial court, and, as noted in Division 2 of the original opinion written by Justice Hall for the court, the enumerated errors which were dependent upon a review of the evidence failed to present any question *316for decision on appeal.

It is now argued that, despite the absence of a transcript of the evidence, the record discloses the trial court erred in granting a divorce to both parties in the last decree and that this court ought to consider this enumerated error of inconsistency in the last decree entered September 19,1973. A careful re-examination of the record convinces me that appellant did raise this issue on appeal and that the grant of a divorce to both parties was inconsistent and erroneous under Code § 30-109 and cases cited thereunder, including Perlotte v. Perlotte, 218 Ga. 27, 28 (126 SE2d 220).

I would, therefore, grant the motion for rehearing and vacate the final judgment entered by the trial court on September 19, 1973, with direction that a new decree be entered by the trial court in the case, consistent with Georgia law, based on the evidence previously considered by the trial court.