Johnson v. Heitman
Supreme Court of Georgia
justice Courts. Jurisdiction. Judgments. Before Judge Fleming. Chatham Superior Court. March Term, 1881. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Crawford, Justice.
The single question controlling this case is whether a judgment rendered by a notary public and ex officio justice of the peace for the second district, Georgia militia — the same being in the city-of Savannah — at another place than that fixed by the ordinary of said county, is a legal and valid judgment.
Section 462 of the Code declares that all judgments rendered in any civil cause elsewhere than at the place for holding the justice courts for the district, shall be void. But it is claimed that the justice courts for the city of Savannah do not fall within the provisions…
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