Adams v. Seay

The plaintiff in error contends that "the question is not whether the judge did something affirmatively to adjourn the term before the end of the two weeks duration provided for by statute, but whether the term- expired because the two weeks duration provided for by statute ran out, and the judge did not do anything sufficient to extend it beyond the time the statute says it should extend.” The statute here referred to is the act of 1888 (Ga. L. 1888, p. 41), wherein it was provided that the terms of the superior court of Macon and Sumter Counties, both of which are in the Southwestern…