E. Tris Napier Co. v. Brown

The sole question in this case is, whether, by the terms of the act of the General Assembly creating it, the municipal court of Macon is given jurisdiction to try and determine issues made under dispossessory warrants. The legal purpose and intent of the act in this respect will suffice to determine the only question involved in the case. ' The Supreme Court has held that an act giving to a city court concurrent jurisdiction to try an issue formed by a counter-affidavit to dispossessory warrants is not unconstitutional as being a special law where there is an existing general law. McDonald v.…