City of Cedartown v. Pickett

Jenkins, Justice.

1. Although certiorari is not an appropriate remedy to review or obtain relief from the judgment, decision, or action of an inferior judicatory or body rendered in the exercise of legislative, executive, or ministerial functions, such a writ does lie for the correction of errors in decisions by municipal corporations, courts or councils, like other inferior judicatories, when rendered in the exercise of their judicial powers. Bryant v. Board of Education, 156 Ga. 688 (1, a) (119 S. E. 601); Carr v. Augusta, 124 Ga. 116 (2), 121 (52 S. E. 300), and cit.; Code, §§ 19-101,…