Case Name: Slaughter v. Manning
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1912-10-09
Citations: 11 Ga. App. 650
Docket Number: 4218
Parties: Slaughter v. Manning.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 11
Pages: 650–650

Head Matter:
4218.
Slaughter v. Manning.
Decided October 9, 1912.
Levy and claim; from city court of Vienna — Judge Lasseter. April 17, 1912.
F. II. Kirlcland, W. V. Harvard, Jule Felton, for plaintiff in error.
D. L. Henderson, contra.

Opinion:
Hill, C. J.
1. An application to foreclose a landlord's lien for supplies, against a tenant, where the amount claimed exceeds $100, can not be made to a justice of the peace; and where such application is made, and the justice of the peace has issued an execution thereon for a sum exceeding $100, the execution is absolutely void, and any lien thereon, and all further proceedings thereunder, are absolutely invalid. Civil . Code (1910), § 3366, subsections 3 and 4.
2. Where a landlord's lien for supplies exceeding the sum of $100 is foreclosed before a justice of the peace, who issues an execution tíiereon for the sum claimed, and the execution is levied upon property in the possession of the tenant and a claim is interposed, the claimant, on the trial of the claim case, can challenge the legality of the foreclosure proceedings and the validity of the execution issued thereunder.
Judgment reversed.