Dade County v. State of Georgia

Candler, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) It is always the duty of this court, with or without motion of a party) to consider the question of its jurisdiction in all cases in which there may be any doubt as to the existence of such jurisdiction; and the present case is one calling for such inquiry. Dobbs v. Federal Deposit Ins. Corp., 187 Ga. 569 (1 S. E. 2d, 672); McDowell v. McDowell, 194 Ga. 88 (20 S. E. 2d, 602); Brochett v. Maxwell, 200 Ga. 38 (36 S. E. 2d, 638). The question of this court’s jurisdiction of the instant case depends on whether the intervention, as amended, of…