Beazley v. DeKalb County

Upon the call of the case for hearing before the trial court on the rule nisi, the intervenor moved for a continuance on the ground that he had been out of town and had not known about the proceeding until four or five days before the hearing, and that he had not had ample time in which to locate witnesses and secure their testimony in support of his intervention. No witnesses had been subpoenaed in his behalf at that time. Code § 81-1419 provides that “applications for continuances are addressed to the sound legal discretion of the court.” Code § 81-1416 provides that “in all cases the…