Case Name: Woodward v. Gresham
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1915-04-20
Citations: 16 Ga. App. 207
Docket Number: 6150
Parties: Woodward v. Gresham.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 16
Pages: 207–207

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.