Case Name: SWEAT v. BARNHILL et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1930-05-16
Citations: 170 Ga. 545
Docket Number: No. 7501
Parties: SWEAT v. BARNHILL et al.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 170
Pages: 545–549

Head Matter:
SWEAT v. BARNHILL et al.
No. 7501.
May 16, 1930.
J. P. Knight, for plaintiff in error.
Morgan & Johnson, Franklin & Lang dale, and II. C. Eberhardt, contra.

Opinion:
Hill, J.
1. Injunction is not the remedy to test the questions here involved. It appears to be a contest between two sets of county commissioners, as to which set- is entitled to hold said offices and to manage the affairs of the County of Clinch. It is well settled, where the title to an office is involved, that quo warranto, or a petition in the nature of a quo warranto, is the proper remedy, rather than an equitable petition for injunction. Civil Code (1910), § 5451; Coleman v. Glenn, 103 Ga. 458 (2) (30 S. E. 297, 68 Am. St. R. 108); Stanford v. Lynch, 147 Ga. 518 (94 S. E. 1001); McCarthy v. McKinney, 137 Ga. 292, 297 (73 S. E. 394).
2. A general demurrer to the petition was filed, but was not expressly passed upon. As an equitable petition for injunction would not lie in a case like the present, all the orders and judgments passed subsequently were nugatory and of no effect. The trial judge erred in granting an interlocutory injunction.
Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concur.