42 Ga. App. 637 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1931
Where, in a petition for certiorari, exception was taken to a judgment of the appellate division of the municipal court of Atlanta affirming a judgment of the trial judge in that court overruling a motion for a new trial, and, in conformity with the ruling in Jeter v. Turman-Brown Co., 169 Ga. 30 (149 S. E. 555), that an “appeal to the appellate division of the municipal court of Atlanta, provided by law, is a review of the judgment of the trial judge in overruling the motion for a new trial, such as necessitates an assignment of error upon his ruling,” the appellants, among various assignments of error, specifically assigned error upon the judgment of the trial judge refusing a new trial, the judgment of the superior court sustaining the certiorari can not be reversed on the ground that the appeal was invalid.
2. The act of the General Assembly approved August 17, 1920 (Ga. L. 1920, p. 215, | 13), known as the “small-loan act,” prohibits the direct or indirect charging, contracting for, or receiving of more than three and one half per centum per month as interest. The evidence submitted in the instant case would have authorized a finding that mofe than that
Judgment affirmed.