9 Ga. App. 621 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1911
The defendants in error moved to dismiss the writ of error, because it is the second writ of error to the same final judgment. The plaintiff in error resists the motion. He candidly admits that béfore he secured the signature of the judge to the present writ of error- he had presented to the judge another bill of exceptions, which had been duly certified by the judge (and under the practice in this State the certificate of-the judge to the bill of exceptions constitutes the writ of error) and served
Because of the motive which induced the attorney for the plaintiff in error to let his first bill of exceptions go by and to present the second bill to the same judgment, and because we dislike to penalize, as it were, an effort to be extra fair, we are reluctant to dismiss the bill of exceptions on the ground stated; but a dismissal seems to be imperative. When the judge once certifies a bill of
Writ of error .dismissed.