Court Opinion

ID: 5557421
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 00:43:49.196767+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:35:22.373255
License: Public Domain

Trippe, Judge.
Section 3719 of the Code provides that all applications for a new trial, except in extraordinary cases, must be made during the term at which the trial was had, but may be heard, determined and returned in vacation. This was but an enactment into a statute of the principle established in Grady vs. Hightower, 1 Kelly, 252, and Johnson vs. Bemis, 4 Georgia, *112157. Those cases construe the judiciary act of 1799 on that subject, and in both it was held that the judges may make rules for new trials returnable in vacation. In the latter case the judgment was, that the motion could not be heard and determined in vacation, unless an order was taken for that purpose, or it be so directed in the rule nisi. The Code means nothing more, and there are strong reasons for holding that the long established rulings and practice iu this state should not be abolished by implication. The construction we give to this section is the one that it has uniformly received since the adoption of the Code.
Judgment reversed.