Court Opinion

ID: 9567283
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:51:46.608117+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:00:30.668873
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Bell, Chief Judge,
concurring specially. The only issue presented in this case is whether a notary public may administer the oath to the affidavit in a dispossessory warrant proceeding. The affidavit here was sworn to before a notary public. It has been held that only those specifically empowered by the statutes may administer the oath. A notary public is not so empowered. Code § 61-301; Ga. L. 1951, pp. 3105, 3107; Griswold v. Rutherford, 109 Ga. 398 (34 SE 602). Thus, the entire *772proceeding is void and the judgment appealed from must be reversed.