Case Name: MacDOUGALD v. PHILLIPS
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1993-02-05
Citations: 262 Ga. 778
Docket Number: S92A1181
Parties: MacDOUGALD v. PHILLIPS.
Judges: Clarke, C. J., Benham, Fletcher, Sears-Collins, Hunstein, JJ., and Judge Don A. Langham concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 262
Pages: 778–779

Head Matter:
S92A1181.
MacDOUGALD v. PHILLIPS.
(425 SE2d 652)

Opinion:
Hunt, Presiding Justice.
This is an appeal from the trial court's grant of Phillips' motion to dismiss this action for quo warranto, and award of attorney fees to the respondent. The trial court properly dismissed this action for quo warranto because Phillips — a professor and the department chairman of the criminal justice department of a state college, as well as the director of the Criminal Justice Institute at that college — does not hold office within the meaning of the quo warranto statutes. OCGA § 9-6-60 et seq. See generally McDuffie v. Perkerson, 178 Ga. 230 (173 SE 151) (1933).
Phillips concedes the trial court's order does not contain any findings of fact which would support the award of attorney fees. Accordingly, this appeal is remanded to the trial court for findings of fact which would support such an award, or to vacate that award. See Porter v. Felker, 261 Ga. 421, 422 (3) (405 SE2d 31) (1991).
Judgment affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
Clarke, C. J., Benham, Fletcher, Sears-Collins, Hunstein, JJ., and Judge Don A. Langham concur.
Decided February 5, 1993
Reconsideration denied February 25, 1993.
Brown & Scoccimaro, Jimmie H. Brown, Knight & Marlowe, Terry J. Marlowe, for appellant.
McKee & Barge, Patrick W. McKee, Christopher J. Ramig, for appellee.
Peterson, Dillard, Young, Self & Asselin, Thomas O. Marshall, MacDougald & Hendon, Daniel MacDougald III, Johnson & Montgomery, Harry W. MacDougald, amici curiae.