Parker v. Belcher
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice. Judgments. Jurisdiction. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Clayton superior court. September term, 1890. The error alleged is, that the court below refused to vacate a verdict and judgment in favor of the defendants in the case of T. W. Parker and wife against EL. C. Belcher and J. L. Blalock.
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Practice. Judgments. Jurisdiction. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Clayton superior court. September term, 1890. The error alleged is, that the court below refused to vacate a verdict and judgment in favor of the defendants in the case of T. W. Parker and wife against EL. C. Belcher and J. L. Blalock. The action brought by the Parkers was complaint for land, and the abstract of title relied on was “a homestead filed in the ordinary’s court on the 10th day of Eeb’y, 1874, and recorded in Book B, page 10, February, 1874, in which schedule said land is claimed and set apart to the plaintiffs as a…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. A suitor in the superior court has no right to con-suit the judge while off the bench for his opinion as to when the case will come on for trial, or as to what will be done with it when it does come on. The sayings and doings of the judge in such an interview areextra*114judicial, and cannot be treated as announcements or rulings of the court. It is manifest that Mr. Parker had no leave of absence. Not only so, but he was expressly warned by one of his counsel not to absent himself. He nevertheless went home, and thus failed to be present when his case was called and…
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