Wage Earners Real Estate Co. v. Gaulden

Where a counter-affidavit filed by the defendant to a mortgage foreclosure in a justice’s court is dismissed for insufficiency, in that it sets up no defense to the foreclosure, but constitutes a claim of title to the property, filed by the defendant himself, an appeal is not the defendant’s remedy. Maddox v. Witte, 100 Ga. 316 (27 S. E. 163). See also Howell v. Allen, 106 Ga. 16 (31 S. E. 759) ; Toole v. Edmondson, 104 Ga. 776, 784 (8), 785 (31 S. E. 25); Humphries v. Blalock, 100 Ga. 404 (28 S. E. 165); Rogers v. Bennett, 78 Ga. 707 (3 S. E. 660); Small v. Sparks, 69 Ga. 745. Upon an appeal…