84 Ga. 145 | Ga. | 1889
The question in this case is, whether a justice of the* peace is disqualified from presiding in a case where one of the parties to the case married a cousin of the wife: of the justice, the party and the justice not being otherwise related. It is insisted on the part of the defendant, in error that the justice and the plaintiff in error are related within the fourth degree of affinity, under §205 of' the code, although it is admitted that they are not related within any degree of consanguinity.
1. A husband is related by affinity to the blood relations of his wife, and the wife by affinity to the blood relations of her husband, but not otherwise by affinity.. Thus, two persons who are not otherwise related may-marry two sisters, and these persons would not be related by affinity to each other; as was held by the court
The court below sustained the certiorari upon the ground that the justice was disqualified from presiding in this case. In this he committed manifest error.
2. Another ground taken in the petition for certiorari was that the jury rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant for a certain sum of money, which was the sum claimed by the plaintiff of the defendant, and when that verdict was returned, this mistake was immediately discovered and the attention of the jury called to it, and they retired and corrected it, and instead of rendering a verdict for the defendant, they rendered it as they should have done — for the plaintiff.
Judgment reversed.