Barnes v. Mechanics Savings Bank

Wadé, C. J.

The Mechanics Savings Bank instituted suit in a justice’s court in the city of Savannah, against the maker and the indorser of a promissory note. At the conclusion of the trial the magistrate, before whom the case was tried without the interven*215tion of a jury, rendered a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, -which he entered in writing upon the summons. Subsequently a judgment in favor of the defendant and against the plaintiff was entered upon the docket of the justice’s court, and signed by him. When this conflict between the judgment as entered on the summons and the judgment as…