Case Name: Sawyer vs. Cargile
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1884-04-25
Citations: 72 Ga. 290
Docket Number: 
Parties: Sawyer vs. Cargile.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 72
Pages: 290–291

Head Matter:
Sawyer vs. Cargile.
Sunday is dies non juridiaus, and service cannot be made, or legal notice given on that day, or the business or work oí ordinary callings done. Therefore, the publication of the advertisement of a marshal’s sale for taxes in a newspaper appearing on Sunday was not legal, and the sale thereunder passed no title.
April 25, 1884.
Sunday. Title. Advertisement. Levy and Sale. Before Judge Hammond. Fulton Superior Court. October Term, 1883.
Sawyer brought complaint for land against Cargile. One link in the chain of title on which plaintiffs case depended was a deed made by the marshal of the city of Atlanta, under an execution issued for city taxes due by Cargile for 1879. It appeared from the evidence introduced by plaintiff that the advertisement of this tax sale issued four times, as follows: On Sunday, November 2; Thursday, November 13 ; Friday, November 21; Friday, November 28. It was also proved that the Sunday issue of the newspaper had a much larger circulation than on any other-day.
On motion, the court granted a non-suit, and plaintiff excepted.
Reed, Reinhardt & Arrowood, for plaintiff in error.
Marshall J. Clarke, for defendant.

Opinion:
Jackson, Chief Justice.
Sawyer sued Cargile for a lot of land in Atlanta. The-plaintiff derived title from the city of Atlanta, and the city from the sale.of the land as defendant's property for taxes. So that the question is, did title pass out of defendant into the city by that sale; if it did, the non-suit was-wrong; if not, it was right.
It did not pass from defendant to the city, among other reasons, because the land was not legally advertised, for sale, the first notice in the newspaper appearing on Sunday, and without that notice it was not long enough advertised. Sunday is diets non juridicus, and service cannot-be made, or legal notice given on that day, or the business- or work of ordinary callings done. Code, §4, sub-sec, 8, §4579 ; 49 Ga., 436 ; 12 Id., 93 380 ; 31 Id. 638, 607 ; 41 Id., 449 ; 57 Id., 179 ; 59 Id., 683 ; 62 Id., 449. So the-non-suit was right.
Judgment affirmed.