Greer v. Turner County
Supreme Court of Georgia
Affidavit of illegality of execution. Before Judge Frank Park. Turner superior court. March 16, 1911. W. A. Greer was the ordinary of Turner county during the years 1907 and 1908, and as such officer performed during those years certain extra public services and incurred certain expenses in behalf of the public, in relation to which the existing laws provided no compensation.
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Affidavit of illegality of execution. Before Judge Frank Park. Turner superior court. March 16, 1911. W. A. Greer was the ordinary of Turner county during the years 1907 and 1908, and as such officer performed during those years certain extra public services and incurred certain expenses in behalf of the public, in relation to which the existing laws provided no compensation. He rendered an itemized bill for such services and expenses, properly verified, to the grand jury of such county at the spring term of the superior court, 1909. That grand jury made the following recommendations: “In…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. We will first deal with the assignment of error made by Greer upon the overruling of his motion to quash the execution and to dismiss the levy made thereunder. The grounds of this motion were in substance as follows: (1) Because the execution was issued and signed by “D. H. Davis, Chairman of Board of Roads and Revenues of Turner County, Georgia,” and no sufficient facts were set forth in the execution to show any authority or jurisdiction either in Davis as chairman of the board, or in the board itself, to issue the execution. (2) Because the execution…
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