Case Name: Roberts, guardian, vs. Leonard et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1879-02
Citations: 62 Ga. 209
Docket Number: 
Parties: Roberts, guardian, vs. Leonard et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 62
Pages: 209–209

Head Matter:
Roberts, guardian, vs. Leonard et al.
[This case was argued at the last teim, and the decision reserved.]
In injunction cases, bills of exceptions must be tendered and signed within twenty days from the decision. Absence of the presiding judge from home, though stated in the certificate as the reason for failure to sign it in time, will not prevent a dismissal of the writ of error.
Practice in the Supreme Court. August Term, 1878.
Report unnecessary.
I. A. Bush, for plaintiff in error.
E. C. Bower, for defendants.

Opinion:
Warner, Chief Justice.
It appears from the bill of exceptions in this case, that the decision was rendered on the 23rd of October, 1878. The bill of exceptions was not signed until the 23rd of November, 1878, the judge certifying that it reached his residence on the 9th, but in consequence of his absence from home it was not signed until the 23rd. The 3213th section of the Code, requiring the bills of exceptions in injunction cases to be tendered and signed within twenty days from the rendition of the decision, does not make the absence of the judge from home an exception* to that positive requirement. This case comes within the ruling of this court in Gray vs. Field, decided at the last January term, and must control it. Let the writ of error be dismissed.