130 Ga. 398 | Ga. | 1908
The following question has been certified to us ■by the Court of Appeals: “Is the act of the General 'Assembly creating the city court of Vienna (Georgia Laws 1901, p. 189), in so far as it seeks to provide that said court shall have jurisdiction to try an issue founded on the óounter-affidavit made in resistance to a warrant to dispossess a tenant holding over, unconstitutional and void in that it is contraria to article 1, section 4, paragraph 1, of the constitution of the State of Georgia (Civil Code, §5132), which provides that Taws of a general nature shall have uniform operation throughout the State, and no special law shall be enacted in any case for which provision has been made by an existing general law/ on the ground that there is a general law (Civil Code of 1895, §4816) which provides that such issues shall be tried in the superior court of the county where the land lies, and that the act above referred to, creating the city court
Moreover, section 4816 of the Civil Code, which provides for the return of the warrant to dispossess a tenant, and the counter-affidavit, to the superior court, for trial in that court, does not have the effect to vest exclusive jurisdiction in the superior court. In the case of Harper v. Tomblin, 127 Ga. 390 (56 S. E. 433), it was held that the Civil Code, §4208, expressly conferred upon county courts jurisdiction to hear and determine cases of this character, and that the superior court did not have exclusive jurisdiction over the same. The act creating the city court of Vienna does not at