Case ID: ga_72/html/0204-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Patterson et al., Road Commissioners, vs. Hendrix et al.
    
    1. Where a case was argued during the term of court, and a consent order was taken, allowing the presiding judge to decide the same in chambers within thirty days from the date of +ho order, time was of the essence of the consent, and a judgment rendered in chambers after the time allowed had expired was coram non judice and void, and on exception will be reversed. Code, §249 ; 60 Ga., 123; 55 Id., 258 ; 59 Id., 628.
    2. Two distinct persons having no privity of any sort between them, except that both had failed to obey a summons todo road duty, and had been tried therefor by the commissioners’ court, cannot unite in one certiorari to the judgments against them.'
    Judgment reversed.
    December 21, 1883
    Jackson, Chief Justice.