232 Ga. 846 | Ga. | 1974
Lead Opinion
We granted certiorari to review the applicability of Daniel v. Federal Nat. Mortgage Assn., 231 Ga. 385 (202 SE2d 388), to the facts of this case which are fully set forth in the opinion of the Court of Appeals in First Federal Savings & Loan Assn. v. Shepherd, 131 Ga. App. 692 (206 SE2d 571), and need not be repeated here.
The specific issue presented for decision is whether under Daniel the judgment of the trial court in this dispossessory warrant proceeding from the Civil Court of Fulton County should have been appealed to the appellate division of that court rather than appealed directly to the Court of Appeals. After reviewing the record, we believe the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to hear the appeal and that the case was correctly decided by that court.
As observed by Judge Quillian in the opinion of the Court of Appeals, "The court further ordered the appellee to pay $180 into [the] registry of the court, being $90 each for the months of August and September, and to continue to pay $90 per month into the registry of the court on the first day of each succeeding month thereafter until final
We find from our review of the record that this case involved more than $300 at the time an appeal was taken from the judgment of the Civil Court of Fulton County to the Court of Appeals. The holding of this court in Daniel was that since no amount of money was involved in that dispossessory warrant proceeding, and the only relief sought was possession of real estate, the Act creating the Civil Court of Fulton County, requiring cases involving less than $300 to be appealed first to the appellate division of that court, was applicable and therefore a direct appeal to this court, raising a constitutional question, would not lie.
Since the sum of more than $300 was involved in this appeal, it was unnecessary for appellant to go first to the appellate division of the Civil Court of Fulton County and the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to decide the case on direct appeal to it.
Having determined that the Court of Appeals correctly decided the case, we affirm its judgment.
Judgment affirmed.
Concurrence Opinion
concurring specially.
I concur in the judgment of this court distinguishing Daniel v. Federal Nat. Mortgage Assn., 231 Ga. 385 (202
Concurrence Opinion
concurring specially.
I would dismiss the certiorari as being improvidently granted since I agree with the opinion of the Court of Appeals in this case and believe the case was properly appealed to that court, regardless of whether any sum of money was involved in the case, for the reasons set forth in my dissent in Daniel v. Federal Nat. Mortgage Assn., 231 Ga. 385, 388-391.
I am authorized to state that Justice Gunter joins in this special concurring opinion.