Levadas v. Beach
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for certiorari. Before Judge Parker. Glynn superior court. April 30,1904. The judge refused a certiorari, and the record therefore contains only what was recited in the petition therefor.
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Petition for certiorari. Before Judge Parker. Glynn superior court. April 30,1904. The judge refused a certiorari, and the record therefore contains only what was recited in the petition therefor. It alleged that on July 19, 1902, the jury returned a verdict in the justice’s court in favor of Beach against Levadas; that the justice thereupon entered up judgment on the summons in said case, to which he affixed his official signature. . There is no recital that the judgment w.as entered on the docket, except that it is recited, in an order offered in evidence, that on March 17,1903 (not in…
1Opinion of the CourtLamar, J.
(after stating the foregoing facts.) Every citizen has the constitutional right to represent himself in court. Civil Code, § 5701. This right, however, is rarely exercised in those cases where the pleadings and practice of necessity involve techr nical skill. But the law evidently contemplates that many suits will be prosecuted in a justice’s court without either party being represented by counsel, and the practice therein is adjusted to this theory. Parties might be entirely ignorant as to the form in which a judgment should be entered, and therefore the law not only requires a. justice to…
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