Etheridge v. Peak
Etheridge v. Peak
Opinion of the Court
1. Where, in a petition for certiorari which contains an exception to the judgment of a magistrate overruling an affidavit of illegality to an execution upon a consideration of the issues made by the
2. Where the regular place for holding the justice’s courts of a district is “at” a “court house” which is located on “about” one quarter of an acre of land which is owned by the county, and where on account of cold weather and there being no heat in the court house and no furniture therein, a judgment is rendered by the magistrate at a point “ten or twelve feet from the front and only door” of the court house while he occupied an automobile which was more comfortable than the court house, the rendition of the judgment, under the circumstances, was a substantial compliance .with the law as to the place of holding the justice’s court of the district, and the judgment thus rendered was not a judgment rendered at a place other than the regular place of holding the justice’s court in said district as required by law. Wright v. Stewart, 22 Ga. App. 655 (2) (97 S. E. 193).
3. The court erred in sustaining the certiorari.
Judgment reversed.
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