DeFee v. Williams

Mobley, Justice.

Petition was filed by the appellant against the Clerk of the Civil and Criminal Court of Cobb County praying that mandamus issue requiring the clerk to remove masking tape which had been placed over certain portions of the appellant’s answer filed in a proceeding in the Civil Court of Cobb County. The clerk filed a sworn answer in which he stated that the tape had been removed. On hearing the trial judge (as shown by his order) heard the statements of both parties, considered the sworn answer of the respondent that *804the tape had been removed, and held that the issue was moot…