Merritt v. Gate City National Bank

Simmons, Chief Justice.

1. This was. an action in the- city court of Atlanta, filed'. June, 12, 1894, and made returnable to- -the July term, 1894, which began on Monday, July 2. The act of November 30, 1892, establishing new terms for that court, provides that, “all cases brought in said 'court shall be re- • tamable to. and triable at the term next ensuing after twenty days have elapsed from the filing, . . . the - purpose of this act being to- require a case to be filed ■twenty days before the term to’ which it is returnable.” (Acts 1892, p. 220.) A plea to the jurisdiction, on the-ground…