Case ID: ga-app_16/html/0207-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

6150.
    Woodward v. Gresham.
    Decided April 20, 1915.
    Certiorari; from Fulton superior court — Judge Bell. October 10, 1914.
    
      B. M. 'Church, for plaintiff.
    
      M. Her zb erg, D. K. Johnston, for defendant.
   Broyles, J.

The writ of certiorari lies only for the correction of errors in a final judgment of a cause, and it is always available to review any final judgment of an inferior judicatory; but the act of 1913 (Acts 1913, p. 167), creating the municipal court of Atlanta, provides no other method of review in that court of a judgment rendered therein, in the first instance, by a single judge, than by a motion for a new trial; and consequently, in that court, the grant of a nonsuit (in exception to the general rule) may be reviewed by a motion for a new trial, and the judge of the superior court did not err in overruling the certiorari, which raised only the specific point that the grant of a nonsuit in the municipal court of Atlanta could not be reviewed by the appellate division of that court by a motion for a new trial, but was reviéwable only by certiorari. Judgment affirmed.