Case ID: ga-app_6/html/0154-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

1559.
    Smith v. Chivers.
    Certiorari, from Washington, superior court — Judge Bawlings. November 7, 1908.
    Submitted January 28, —
    Decided May 4, 1909.
    
      M. L. Gross, A. R. Wright, for plaintiff in error.
   Hill, C. J.

1. The defendant in a justice’s court, when sued on an unconditional contract in writing, must appear and make his defense at the-first term, either by pleading or by the marking of his name, or that of his attorney, on the docket. Civil Code, §4134; Heyward v. Field, 95 Ga. 714 (22 S. E. 653); Morgan v. Prior, 110 Ga. 791 (36 S. E. 75).

2. When no defense whatever is made at or before the first term to a suit, in a justice’s court on an unconditional contract in writing, no plea can be filed on an appeal to a jury from the judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff. The justice did not err in dismissing the appeal.

Judgment affirmed.