City of Macon v. Ries

Russell, Chief Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

The rulings stated in the first three headnotes require no further elaboration. The motion to dismiss the writ of error is overruled.

While it has been held by respectable authority that “a right of hearing need not have all the formality of trial in order to comply with the due-process clause,” there has been no explicit ruling by this court couched in such broad language; and to the contrary we are of the opinion that the previous ruling of this court in City of Macon v. Ries, 179 Ga. 330 (supra), properly construed, fixes the law of…