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PERLOTTE v. PERLOTTE

21643.

218 Ga. 27 (1962)

126 S.E.2d 220

PERLOTTE v. PERLOTTE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 21, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colley & Orr, Wilbur A. Orr, Jr., for plaintiff in error.

Jean William Pierce, contra.

DUCKWORTH, Chief Justice.

1. It is reversible error to charge a jury in a divorce case that, if the jury grants one party a divorce as a matter of law, the opposite party should also be granted a divorce. While some lower courts seemingly have misconstrued the 1960 amendment to Code Ann. § 30-122 (Ga. L. 1960, pp. 1024, 1025), "rights and disabilities" and "divorce" are not synonymous terms. See Moon v. Moon, 216 Ga. 627...

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