Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Memory
Supreme Court of Georgia
Motion to set aside judgment. Before Judge Parker. Glynn superior court. May 26, 1905. Memory, the official stenographer of the Brunswick circuit, took down in shorthand notes the testimony and charge of the court in the case of Olsen v. Seaboard Air-Line Eailway, tried at the May term, 1904, of Glynn superior court, these services being rendered by direction of the presiding judge and at the request of counsel for both parties.
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Motion to set aside judgment. Before Judge Parker. Glynn superior court. May 26, 1905. Memory, the official stenographer of the Brunswick circuit, took down in shorthand notes the testimony and charge of the court in the case of Olsen v. Seaboard Air-Line Eailway, tried at the May term, 1904, of Glynn superior court, these services being rendered by direction of the presiding judge and at the request of counsel for both parties. He wrote out, or transcribed, the evidence and charge of the court, in longhand, at the request of counsel for the defendant, and delivered the transcript to them. At…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, P. J.
1. The court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the motion, though all of the grounds of the motion were not well taken. The judgment was not void because the stenographer was allowed ten cents per hundred words for the work performed by him in taking down the testimony and charge of the court. The statute provides that “The compensation of the reporter or stenographer for recording, or taking stenographic notes, and recording the evidence in such civil cases as may be agreed by counsel to be recorded, or, in cases of disagreement, as aforesaid in such cases as the presiding judge may direct…
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