Case Name: Green v. Alexander
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1891-12-07
Citations: 88 Ga. 161
Docket Number: 
Parties: Green v. Alexander.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 88
Pages: 161–162

Head Matter:
Green v. Alexander.
A judgment of the superior court rendered bn appeal from a justice’s' court is not void so as to be attacked by affidavit of illegality on-, the ground that the justice’s court was not held “ at a court-house established according to law,” both parties having had their day in the superior court. Code, §3671. .
December 7, 1891.
Justices’courts. Judgments. Illegality. Before Judge Richard II. Clark. Clayton superior court. March, term, 1891.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed.
Illegality was interposed by Green, tbe defendant, to tbe levy of an execution against him. One ground' off illegality was, because the Ji. fa. issued from a judgment' of tbe superior court based upon an appeal from tbe judgment of tbe justice's court of a certain district, wbicb justice's court judgment was null and void because not rendered at a court-house established according to law in said district. Tbe illegality was dismissed' for insufficiency, and Green excepted.
Hutcheson & Key, for plaintiff in error,
cited. 70 Ga. 685; 76 Ga. 741; Code, §462, 5153.
Roan & Go lightly, contra,
cited 69 Ga. 180; 73 Ga. 542.