In these two appeals, Sara Alene Waugh Alene, the wife of Charles Woodrow Waugh, Jr. Charlie and their two daughters, Gail Stone and Jewel Moore Case No. A03A1890, and Joseph W. Jones, the administrator of the Charlie’s estate, Case No. A03A1891, challenge the judgment entered on jury responses to special interrogatories in an action brought by Charles Coymac Waugh Mack, Charlie and Alene’s son. The jury found that Charlie had an equal partnership with Mack in a family business, entitling Mack to Charlie’s share of the business. Over the years, Charlie had used the profits from the business to purchase certificates of deposit in his name, and the jury also awarded Mack 20 percent of these profits. Jones, Alene, Stone, and Moore all claim that the evidence presented at trial does not support the jury’s responses to the interrogatories, and that the trial court should have granted their motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict as to these issues. Alene, Stone, and Moore also contend that no evidence supported the jury’s conclusion that Stone and Moore interfered with Lamar Wingo, the guardian ad litem appointed for Charlie, or that they prevented the performance of any of Charlie’s lawful obligations.1 We find that evidence exists in the record to support all the jury interrogatory responses, and we find that the trial court correctly denied the motion for judgment n.o.v. “On appeal, this Court must concentrate on the evidence which supports the verdict, not that evidence which undermines it. Cit.” Moghangard v. Keshavariz , 239 Ga. App. 255, 257 520 SE2d 59 1999. So viewed, the evidence presented at trial showed that Charlie and Mack both worked in the family business, an auto parts junkyard begun by Charlie. Mack started working with Charlie in the business when he was a child, and he began working in the business full time when he left school at age 16. He was paid only what he needed “to get me by.” Legal title to the business property was maintained in Charlie’s name, but Charlie and Mack understood that they were partners and that eventually the business would belong to Mack. Mack oversaw many financial aspects of the business, paying business license fees, ad valorem taxes on the inventory, real estate taxes, and sales taxes. In addition, he took care of some of his parents’ personal needs. He installed central heat and air in his parents’ home and paid their utility bills. He was responsible for making bank deposits from the business proceeds and purchasing certificates of deposit, although these were purchased in Charlie’s name. Alene and Mack’s sisters were not aware that over time, these time deposits had grown to more than $300,000.
Because of Charlie’s advancing age, Mack’s sisters consulted an attorney in 1994 about preparing a will for Charlie. Mack agreed that Charlie needed a will. In connection with the will preparation, Mack told his mother and his sisters about the large sum of money in CDs, and Charlie became angry with Mack. The lawyer eventually learned that Charlie “wasn’t very interested in making a will,” and this project was abandoned. Later the same year, Charlie quitclaimed to Alene a one-half undivided interest in that portion of his land on which the business is located, and Charlie and Alene then conveyed that property to Mack.
