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87 Ga. 148

Bernstein v. Clark

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided April 20, 1891

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1891-04-20

<p>Justices’ courts. Appeal. Certiorari. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. DeKalb superior court. August term, 1890.</p>

Relies on Greenwood v. Boyd & Baxter Furniture Factory · Thompson v. Dodd Bros.

Decided 1891-04-20

Lumpkin, J.

¶1From the judgment of a justice of the peace, rendered in a suit upon an account for less than fifty dollara, there being issues of fact involved, a certiorari will not lie, hut there should he an appeal to a jury in the justice’s court. Thompson v. Dodd Bros., 84 Ga. 264; Greenwood v. Boyd & Baxter Furniture Factory, 86 Ga. 582. Judgment reversed.

¶2Bernstein sued Clark on an account for $18.25, as to the correctness of which issue was taken at the trial, *149both parties introducing evidence. 'After judgment by the magistrate for the plaintiff, -the defendant by certiorari assigned erroP upon certain legal points which were decided against him, and upon the judgment as contrary to evidence. The superior court overruled a motion to dismiss the certiorari, made upon the ground that appeal to a jury in the justice’s court had not first been taken ; and sustained the certiorari upon a legal question.

J. N. Glenn, for plaintiff.Candler & Lee, for defendant.
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