Butler v. RICH'S INCORPORATED

1. “Where delay of the clerk of the trial court to prepare and certify a transcript of the record within the time prescribed by statute is not caused by his own laches, but by the active interposition of counsel for the plaintiff in error . . the writ of error will be dismissed. Farrar v. Oglesby, 84 Ga. 188 (11 S. E. 133).” Black v. Columbia Phonograph Co., 52 Ga. App. 48 (182 S. E. 73). Since the bill of exceptions was filed in the office of the clerk of the trial court on July 8 after having been certified by the court on July 5, and the transcript of the record was not certified and…