James v. Douglasville Banking Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Motion, to set aside judgment; from Douglas superior court — Judge Irwin. June 14, 1920.
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, P. J.
1. Where a judge is related by affinity to one who is an officer and stockholder of a plaintiff corporation, by reason of the grandmother of the judge’s wife and the grandmother of such officer having been sisters, the relationship is in the third degree, under the rule of the canon law, and falls within the inhibition of section 4642 of the Civil Code (1910). Such a judge is disqualified from sitting in a case between the corporation and an individual defendant, except with the consent of both parties at interest. Short v. Mathis, 101 Ga. 287, 288 (28 S. E. 918); Smith v. State, 2 Ga. App.…
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