Freeman v. City of LaGrange

Section 5191 (a) of the Civil Code of 1910 prescribes certain conditions precedent to the grant of a writ of certiorari. In Gillespie v. Mayor &c. Macon, 19 Ga. App. 1, this court held: “A petition for certiorari to review the judgment of a police or recorder’s court, unless a pauper’s affidavit is made, must affirmatively allege (among other things) that the petitioner

*47has filed with the clerk of that court, if it has a clerk, a bona payable, etc., and conditioned, etc., which has been approved and accepted by said clerk; and there should be attached to the petition a certified copy of the…