Pettingall v. Nolan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari, in Chatham Superior Court. Decision by Judge Fleming. This was a case of certiorari from a judgment rendered by a Justice of the Peace, in the City of Savannah, and turned upon the construction of certain Acts applying to certain Courts of that City.
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Certiorari, in Chatham Superior Court. Decision by Judge Fleming. This was a case of certiorari from a judgment rendered by a Justice of the Peace, in the City of Savannah, and turned upon the construction of certain Acts applying to certain Courts of that City. By the second section of the Act of December 26,1831, to authorize the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and Oyér and Terminer, and the Mayor of Savannah, to hold special and extraordinary Courts in certain cases, it is provided that said Judge or Mayor, after determining the causé,' “ shall forthwith, by the usual process of the…
1Opinion of the Court
*608 By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] By the Act of 1831, the Legislature conferred summary jurisdiction upon the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and. Oyer and Terminer for the City of Savannah; and also upon the Mayor of the City of Savannah, for the trial of causes appertaining to seamen. (New Digest, 623.)
The 1st section of the Act directs that the proceedings under it shall be by petition, setting forth the nature of the case, supported by affidavit, that the party complaining cannot, without great inconvenience and damage, wait the determination of the cause by the…
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- James v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1918