Dade County v. State of Georgia

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In the bill of exceptions the plaintiffs in error state that “Dade County and Claude E. Owens Jr. presented for allowance by the court, and thereafter filed, their amended interventions and objections to the validation of said certificates, which amendment was duly allowed by the court. Whereupon the court ordered intervenors and objectors to proceed with the introduction of evidence in support of their objections. Thereupon said intervenors objected to the order of the court requiring that they assume the burden of proof, and insisted that the burden of…