Case Name: Williams v. Georgia Railroad and Banking Company
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1898-03-01
Citations: 103 Ga. 575
Docket Number: 
Parties: Williams v. Georgia Railroad and Banking Company.
Judges: All concurring, except Fish, J., disqualified.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 103
Pages: 575–575

Head Matter:
Williams v. Georgia Railroad and Banking Company.
Argued December 16, 1897.
Decided March 1, 1898.
Action for damages — certiorari. Before Judge Candler. DeKalb superior court. February term, 1897.
Henry M. Patty, for plaintiff.
Joseph B. & Bryan (Jamming and Candler & Thomson, for defendant.

Opinion:
Little, J.
1. The superior court has a discretion in passing upon the sufficiency of evidence relied upon to support a verdict rendered in an inferior judicatory, and brought up for review upon certiorari. That discretion was not in the present case abused, the evidence on the trial in the city court being decidedly conflicting, and the superior court "upon a careful consideration of the record [being] satisfied that the ends of justice required a new trial."
2. This court will not reverse a judgment in a certiorari case, remanding the same for a new trial, merely because in so doing the superior court did • not return the case to the court from which it came "with instructions." Especially is this so, when the excepting party does not specify what the desired "instructions" should have been.
Judgment affirmed.
All concurring, except Fish, J., disqualified.