Case Name: Haygood vs. The Georgia Banking & Trust Company
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1878-01
Citations: 60 Ga. 291
Docket Number: 
Parties: Haygood vs. The Georgia Banking & Trust Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 60
Pages: 291–292

Head Matter:
Haygood vs. The Georgia Banking & Trust Company.
An order of the superior court continuing a case with leave to amend ’ the pleadings, is not such a final judgment as will authorize a writ of error to this court.
Practice in the Supreme Court. January Term, 1878.
Reported in the decision.
E. A. Angier ; Alex. O. King, -for plaintiff in error.
JohnH. Cunningham; Geo. C. Spann, for defendant.

Opinion:
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was a case of garnishment' instituted in the court below, and brought up to this court by writ of error. When the case was called here the defendant in garnishment made a motion to dismiss it, on the ground that it did not appear from the record that any judgment had been rendered in the court below, which this court could either affirm or reverse, and that the case was still pending in that court. The presiding judge certified " that the announcement was made by him that the motion docket on which the case was entered had been closed for the term, and that counsel interested in cases on that docket need not attend further. Afterwards the plaintiff's counsel asked the court to take up the ease in the absence of the defendant's leading counsel) who was sent for, and on coming into court, stated in his place that there was really no indebtedness on the part of the garnishee, that he was bona fide defending, and desired time to make the answer of the garnishee more full and as it was intended to have been, and as. there was no jury to try a traverse of the answer, the juries having been discharged, the court, in the exercise of its discretion in favor of justice, continued the ease, with leave to amend the garnishee's answer.
The case is still pending in the court below, and the writ of error must be dismissed; Code, 4250. Whereupon the plaintiff asked leave to withdraw the writ of error, which was granted.