Colclough v. Walker

1. The judge of the superior court did not err in sustaining the certiorari. Waiving the question as to the authority of a judge of the municipal court of Atlanta to set aside a default judgment in that court after the expiration of the trial term, it appears from the record that the matters urged by the defendant in that court as a sufficient reason for setting aside the judgment against him were matters of defense which could have been presented'by plea in bar of such judgment. It does not appear that there was a sufficient legal excuse for the failure to interpose these defenses. Where…