Cauley v. Wadley Lumber Co.

■Turner, J.

X. While, under the Civil Code, § 5072, a trial judge is vested .with a wide discretion as to opening a judgment of default, on motion made at the trial term of a case, there is no provision of law authorizing him to entertain’and grant a motion to open a default presented at any subsequent term at which the case is called for trial. Thornton v. Coleman, 104 Ga. 625, 627. To move to open a default at the term at which a case regularly stands for trial is purely a. matter of grace ; and this privilege must be exercised, if at all, within the time prescribed by the statute whereby it…