Opinion
32447.
DECIDED APRIL 22, 1949.
Complaint on fire policy; from City Court of Polk County — Judge Tison. February 15, 1949.
W. W. Mundy Jr., Smith, Partridge, Field. Doremus Ringel, for plaintiff in error.
J. V. Poole, Charles B. Teal, contra.
Where in an action on a fire-insurance policy the declaration alleges compliance with the terms of the policy as to the filing of a claim, which was prerequisite to the filing of the action on the policy, it was error for the court to direct a verdict for the plaintiff when there was no evidence as to such compliance with the terms of the policy. This is true even if there was evidence as to a waiver of such compliance, in the absence of an amendment to the petition setting forth such waiver. Fidelity Casualty Co. v. Gate City Nat. Bank, 97 Ga. 634 (4) ( 25 S.E. 392); New Zealand Fire Ins. Co. v. Brewer, 29 Ga. App. 773 ( 116 S.E. 922), and cases cited.
The court erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.
Judgment reversed. Sutton, C. J., and Parker, J., concur.