Case Name: Rumph vs. Cleveland
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1883-10-16
Citations: 72 Ga. 189
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rumph vs. Cleveland.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 72
Pages: 189–189

Head Matter:
Rumph vs. Cleveland.
„ „ . . „ , 1 Exceptions to the answer of a justice of the poace to a writ of certiorari must be in writing, must specify the defects complained of, and notice thereof must be given to the opposite party before the case is called for a hearing; but the statute does not require that such exceptions should be verified by affidavit, or that they should be disposed of at the term when they are filed. Code, §§4062, 4066; 40 Ga., 36 ; 64 Id., 576 ; 65 Id., 260.
(a.) The case in 26 Ga., 414, was decided before the Code went into effect.
2. That the record does not show that notice of the exceptions was given before the calling of the case, cannot be urged for the first time in this court, no such question hav’ng been made in the court below. The statute does not prescribe the form or manner of notice. It may have been given or waived.
Judgment reversed.
October 16, 1883.

Opinion:
Hall, Justice.
[Rumph sued Cleveland in a justice's court, and obtained judgment. The case was carried to the superior Gourt by certiorari. At the first term it was called, and defendant in certiorari filed exceptions to the answer thereto because it did not fully set forth the testimony. At the next term, when the case was called, plaintiff in car iiorari moved to dismiss the exceptions because they were not sworn to. The court sustained the motion and dismissed the exceptions, giving as an additional reason therefor that defendant in certiorari did not at the first term take an order requiring the justice to re-answer. The certiorari was sustained, and the defendant therein excepted.]