Dover v. Greer

Beck, Presiding Justice.

A suit for damages was filed by Dover in the city court of Oglethorpe against the Georgia Power Company; and when the case came on for trial the judge of that court, after a jury had been stricken and empaneled, on, motion of defendant’s ' counsel withdrew the case from the jury and passed an *46order referring to an auditor tlie issues raised. Subsequently a petition was presented to the judge of the superior court by the plaintiff, in which he sought a writ of prohibition to prevent the auditor from hearing the case, on the ground that the appointment of the auditor was…