Kirkland v. Ferris

The judge of the superior courts of the Rome circuit was disqualified in a case pending in the superior court of Floyd county. The judge of the city court of Floyd county presided at the trial, which occurred during the July term 1917. After verdict a motion for new trial was presented to the judge who tried the case. A rule nisi was granted, returnable before the same judge “at the court-house in itome, Georgia, at ten o’clock a. m. on the 17th day of September 1917.” At the same time an order was granted setting the motion for new trial to “be heard and determined on the 17th day of Sept.,…