Shelton v. Doster

Townsend, Judge.

1. “A statement of fact made by a justice of the peace in his answer to a writ of certiorari will be taken as true, until traversed.” Artope v. Macon &c. Ry. Co., 110 Ga. 346 (1) (35 S. E. 657). In this action for property damage resulting from an automobile collision brought in the justice court for the 216th militia district of Clarke County, on appeal to a jury, a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff and the defendant brought certiorari to the Superior Court of Clarke County. The answer of the justice of the peace, denying the facts stated by the defendant in the first…