VanNess v. Cheeseborough, Stearns & Co.

11 Ga. 377

• Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
• Decided: June 15, 1852
• Docket: No. 53
• Status: Published

Opinion

By the Court.

Warner, J.

delivering the opinion.

[1.] The defendants in error have made a preliminary motion in this case, and insist that the writ of error was prematurely sued out by the plaintiff. An ex parte application had been made to the presiding Judge of the Court below, for a certiorari, which application was granted. No final decision had been made by the Court, upon any of the grounds of error alleged in the petition for certiorari. When the Court shall consider and decide the grounds of error taken-in the petition, the judgment may be in favor of the present plaintiff in error; non constat, that the decision will be against him, and that he will be injured thereby. The sanctioning the application for certiorari was the appropriate method of getting the question before Ihe Court below for its decision. This case comes fully within the principles decided in Carter and wife vs. Buchanan, (2 Kelly, 338) and recently in the case of Jones et al. vs. Dougherty, decided at Cassville, during the last term of the Court, not yet reported. The writ of error must, therefore, be dismissed, having been issued prematurely.