Supreme Court of Georgia, 1906

Cooper v. City of Gainesville

Cooper v. City of Gainesville
Supreme Court of Georgia · Decided May 10, 1906 · Lumpkin
125 Ga. 240; 53 S.E. 1002; 1906 Ga. LEXIS 108
Cooper v. City of Gainesville

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Opinion of the Court

Lumpkin, J.

Where the answer of the mayor and council of a municipal corporation to a writ of certiorari, brought to review a judgment alleged in the petition therefor to have been rendered by them, did not verify the allegation in the petition that there was such a judgment, or the other allegations thereof, except that it adopted the evidence set out. as practically correct; and no steps were taken to require respondents to-answer over, nor traverse filed to the answer, no reversal can be had in this court. Manning v. Gainesville, and cit., ante.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.

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