Williams v. Sumter County
Supreme Court of Georgia
The Court of Appeals certified (in Case No. 11059) certain questions to which the rulings in the foregoing headnotes are answers.
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, J.
1. A resolution which the commissioners of roads and revenues of Sumter County regularly passed for the purpose of borrowing money to make a temporary loan to supply casual deficiencies, and which recites the existence of such a deficiency, is not to be regarded as a judgment of a court of general and exclusive jurisdiction, such as would prevent its being collaterally attacked in a suit brought by the county against the county treasurer to recover commissions taken by him on such loan. The board of commissioners of roads and revenues are invested by law with the same duties imposed upon the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Davis v. LumpkinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899
- Cox v. Board of CommissionersSupreme Court of Georgia · 1880
- Matthews v. BrowningSupreme Court of Georgia · 1870
3Cited by5 opinions
- Graham v. BeachamSupreme Court of Georgia · 1939
- Robert v. SteedSupreme Court of Georgia · 1950
- Armistead v. MacNeillSupreme Court of Georgia · 1947
- Moore v. BakerCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1952
- Williams v. Sumter CountyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1921