Milhollin v. Milhollin

Mobley, Justice.

1. Consent, to the trial of a divorce case at the appearance term before the judge and without the intervention of a jury is consent to trial of the cause upon the issues made by the pleadings at the time of trial, including recrimination by the defendant, in which he sets forth grounds for divorce for himself.

2. Prior to an act of the General Assembly approved March 28, 1935 (Ga. L. 1935, p. 481), the courts of this State were without jurisdiction to try a divorce case at the appearance term, and legislation to permit such, "... came in limited form in the act of 1935.” Evans…