115 Ga. 107 | Ga. | 1902
Among other assignments of error in the bill of exceptions is one complaining that the court below erred in not dismissing the petition for certiorari. The ground of the motion to dismiss was that there was no proper evidence of service upon the defendant in' certiorari of the notice prescribed by the Civil Code, § 4644. The plaintiff in certiorari, in order to meet this motion, submitted a document of which the following is a copy:
“Georgia, Chatham County. To H. C. Hardy Jr.: You are hereby notified of the sanction of a writ of certiorari in the case between you and myself, tried in the Justice Court of G. Noble Jones for the 2nd District G. M. of said county on the 19th Sept., 1900. Said writ will be heard at the court-house in said county at the next term of the Superior Court to be held on the first Monday in Dec., 1900. This 27th day of Oct., 1900. C. P. Miller.
“Have this day served a notice of which the above is a copy upon H. C. Hardy Jr., by handing -it to him in person.
Jacob Uhlfelder, Notary Public C. C. Ga.
“Filed in office Dec. 15, 1900. J. L. Murphy, Dep. Clerk.”
The trial jiidge held that this paper afforded sufficient evidence of the fact that the defendant in certiorari had received the notice to which he was under the statute entitled. We are constrained to hold otherwise. As will have been observed, the certificate re
Judgment reversed.