Blalock v. Waldrup
Supreme Court of Georgia
Relationship. ■ Disqualification. Before Judge Milner. Bartow superior court. January adjourned term, 1889. Action by Blalock in a justice’s court, on a promissory note. He recovered, and the defendant carried the case to the superior court by certiorari, which was sustained, and the plaintifi excepted.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The question in this case is, whether a justice of the* peace is disqualified from presiding in a case where one of the parties to the case married a cousin of the wife: of the justice, the party and the justice not being otherwise related. It is insisted on the part of the defendant, in error that the justice and the plaintiff in error are related within the fourth degree of affinity, under §205 of' the code, although it is admitted that they are not related within any degree of consanguinity.
1. A husband is related by affinity to the blood relations of his wife, and the…
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