Case ID: ga_123/html/0669-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Evans, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mineral Bluff Board of Education v. Mayor and Council of Mineral Bluff.
    Submitted July 1,
    Decided August 3, 1905.
    Petition for mandamus. Before Judge Gober. Eannin superior court. May -24, 1905.
    
      J. Z. Foster, William Butt, and Jeff Uedden, for plaintiff.
   Evans, J.

1. This court has no jurisdiction to pass upon an assignment of error complaining of the overruling of a demurrer to the answer of the mayor and couneilmen of a municipal corporation to an application for the writ of mandamus, when the trial court holds that the answer presents an issue of fact and refers the issue of fact to a jury, and when there has been no final judgment thereon.

2. But it has jurisdiction to pass upon an assignment of error complaining of a refusal to sustain a motion to make the mandamus absolute ; because, if this motion had been granted, it would have finally disposed of the case.

3. The motion to make the mandamus absolute was properly refused, because ' the answer of the respondents had not been stricken. The sufficiency of an answer can not properly be brought in question by a motion to enter a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, based on the ground that the answer sets forth no defense, after a demurrer to the answer has been overruled. Hollis v. Nelms, 115 Ga. 5; Stromberg v. Bisbee, Ib. 346.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except Simmons, O. J., absent.