Mayor of Macon v. Shaw
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari, in Bibb Superior Court. Decided by Judge Powers, May Term, 1854. BILL OF EXCEPTIONS. Georgia — Bibb County: Be it remembered, that on the fifth day of June, 1854, during the regular term of the Superior Court of said county, His Honor, Abner P. Powers, one of the Judges of the Superior Courts of said State presiding: The petition for certiorari, of Harvey W. Shaw vs. The May- ' or and Council of the City of Macon, came on to be heard; and Counsel for both parties…
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Certiorari, in Bibb Superior Court. Decided by Judge Powers, May Term, 1854. BILL OF EXCEPTIONS. Georgia — Bibb County: Be it remembered, that on the fifth day of June, 1854, during the regular term of the Superior Court of said county, His Honor, Abner P. Powers, one of the Judges of the Superior Courts of said State presiding: The petition for certiorari, of Harvey W. Shaw vs. The May- ' or and Council of the City of Macon, came on to be heard; and Counsel for both parties having announced themselves ready, argument was had upon the said petition for certiorari and statement of facts, as…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Starnes, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The first point made in this case is, that in our State the writ of certiorari does not lie from the decision of a municipal corporation.
Our Constitution provides, that the Superior Courts “ shall have power to correct errors in Inferior Judicatories, by writ of certiorariand the question here is, whether or not the Mayor & City Council of the City of Macon, when they tried the defendant in error, and dismissed him from his office, were acting as an Inferior Judicatory, in the sense in which that term is used in the Constitution.
A Judicatory…
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