Brooks v. Baker
This text of 11 S.E. 840 (Brooks v. Baker) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Georgia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
It has been frequently held by this- court, where a case is brought in a justice’s court to recover a sum under fifty dollars, and the same is tried by the justice of. the peace, and involves questions of law and fact, that a certiorari will not lie to the decision of said justice until after appeal to a jury in the justice’s court The following cases abundantly sustain this position: Witkowski v. Skalowski, 46 Ga. 41; Buroughs v. White & Stone, 69 Id. 841; W. & A. R. R. v. Carson, 70 Id. 388; Same v. Dyar, Id. 723; Shirley v. Rounsaville & Bro., 78 Ga. 708; W. & A. R. R. v. Pitts, 79 Id. 532; Wynne v. Darden,80 Id. 730; Thompsons. Dodd Bros., 84 Id. 264. We think there was no error in dismissing the certiorari; and the judgment is Affirmed.
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