Case ID: ga_73/html/0144-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hall, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Starnes vs. Tanner, Justice.
    If a justice of the peace improperly refused a motion to enter up judgment against a garnishee who was in default, the proper method of correcting such error was by certiorari, and not by mandamus to compel him to enter the judgment. A mandamus will issue to compel a performance of duty only in cases where a defect of legal justice would arise from a failure or improper fulfillment of such duty; but it never issues unless there is no other specific legal remedy for such rights. Code, §3198; 12 Qa., 170.
    Judgment affirmed.
    April 25, 1884.
   Hall, Justice.