Eatonton Oil & Auto Co. v. Ledbetter

This was an equitable petition for injunction, and to set aside a judgment rendered in Putnam county court. Petitioner based his right to have the judgment set aside upon the ground that at the time the case was called in Putnam county court his counsel was absent, having been given a leave of absence from the court for the day on which the case was called and tried. It appears that Judge E. B. Hines, the judge of Baldwin county court, was presiding in Putnam county court at the time the judgment was rendered. The fact that Judge Hines had given leave of absence as claimed is not in…