108 Ga. 580 | Ga. | 1899
An attachment was issued in favor of M.- L. Hargrove against J. D. Turner, and levied upon certain property to which J. D. Turner, as next friend of Eugene Turner, filed a claim. The claim case was tried in the justice’s court, and a judgment entered up therein finding the property not subject. Whereupon plaintiff brought his petition for certiorari to the superior court of Floyd county, and among other things alleged that, after the argument of counsel in the justice’s court, the judge announced that the property was subject, and notified counsel for plaintiff to write out a judgment. Counsel accordingly did so, and handed the same to the justice. After this the court called for counsel for both sides, and remarked that he “had been thinking over the case and had decided that he ' had committed an error, and he thought he had better change his judgment, and find the property not subject.” Counsel for plaintiff replied “that he had already rendered his judgment, and the same had been reduced to writing at the court’s request, was before him to be signed, had been there some time; that his client had left the court-room; and a justice of the peace could not correct his own errors.” After the court first announced his judgment, counsel for claimant had made out and