Jeffers v. Ware
Supreme Court of Georgia
Justice Courts, Jurisdiction. Judgments. • Nullities. Before Judge Roney. Richmond Superior Court. October Adjourned Term, 1882. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.-
This was an appeal from a justice’s court, tried in the superior court of Richmond county, and on that trial, a verdict was found for the plaintiff. The defendants moved for a new trial on two grounds.
(1.) Because the court erred in overruling defendants’ motion to continue the case, for the reason that the proceedings did not disclose that there had been any original *136suit in the lower court, and in ruling that, inasmuch as it appeared from the statements of counsel, that all the record in that court is here, that the defendants were present in that court, had pleaded the…
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