Bacon v. Douglas
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Certiorari; from Fulton superior court—Judge Bell. April 1, 1918. Exception is taken to a judgment of the superior court, overruling a certiorari in a case from the municipal court of Atlanta.
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Certiorari; from Fulton superior court—Judge Bell. April 1, 1918. Exception is taken to a judgment of the superior court, overruling a certiorari in a case from the municipal court of Atlanta. The petitioner in the certiorari proceeding shows that suit by summons was instituted against him in the municipal court of Atlanta, on an open account, that the account was not sworn to, that the service upon him was not personal, and that the judge of the municipal court proceeded to enter up default judgment against him without first having made an entry of default on the docket, or calling the case…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The act of the General Assembly of 1913 (Ga. L. 1913, p. 145) establishing the municipal court of Atlanta, provides in part as follows: “ Section 1. Be it enacted . . . that, effective January first, 1914, all Justices Courts and the office of Justice of the Peace and of Notary Public Ex-Officio Justice of the Peace in the City of Atlanta, Georgia, be and the same are hereby abolished, and in lieu thereof, the Municipal Court of Atlanta is hereby created and established, with the civil and criminal jurisdiction hereinafter provided.” Section 36 provides…
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