Legal Opinion
Murer v. Howard
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided January 10, 1983No. 64659PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Sognier, Judge.
James and Jackie Murer’s complaint against James Howard and Ben Bernard was involuntarily dismissed when the Murers and their counsel failed to appear at a special calendar call. Pursuant to Code Ann. § 81A-160 (d) (now OCGA § 9-11-60), the Murers filed a motion to set aside the dismissal alleging a nonamendable defect — lack of notice of the calendar call — appeared on the face of the record. The trial court denied the motion and the Murers appeal.
The complaint was filed on June 27,1979; appellees answered on July 23,1979. Appellants had requested that their case be placed on…
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