23 Ga. App. 722 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1919
1. The act creating the municipal court of Atlanta .(Acts . 1913, p. 145, § 37) provides that “suits in this court, except as herein provided, or as may be provided by rules of the court, shall proceed as suits or actions in justices’ courts, under the practice thereof existing under the laws relating thereto.” There being in this act nothing that requires that exceptions pendente lite be takgn to a.ruling upon a motion to dismiss pleadings, such exceptions are not necessary, and the ruling thus made may be assigned as,error in the petition for certiorari without such exceptions pendente lite having been first taken. The ruling in Brooke v. Cunningham, 19 Ga. App. 21 (90 S. E. 1037), is not in conflict with what is here held, for that case was decided before the constitutional amendment of 1916 (Acts 1916, p. 19), when a direct writ of error would lie. from the municipal - court of Atlanta to this court, and in that case the overruling of a demurrer was sought to be made the ground of a motion for a new trial.
2. “While the municipal court of Atlanta has'jurisdiction of suits involving larger amounts than those formerly within the jurisdiction of the justice’s courts, the procedure in the municipal court of Atlanta, so far as the necessity for pleadings is concerned, does not-differ from that of the justice’s courts;. . . and a mere misjoinder of causes of action is immaterial.” Shippey v. Owens, 17 Ga. App. 127 (86 S. E. 407); Moon v. Brandt, 20 Ga. App. 396 (93 S. E. 43). The trial judge did not err, therefore, in overruling the ipotion tp dismiss plaintiff’s petition.
3. Under the act creating the municipal court,of Atlanta (Acts 1913, p. 145) .and the decisions of the Supreme Court in Johnston v. Brenau College, 146 Ga. 182 (91 S. E. 85), and Taylor v. Mutual Benefit Industrial Life Ins. Asso., 146 Ga. 660 (92 S. E. 47), the losing párty'in the municipal court may pursue either of the three following remedies to ,, review the decision of the trial judge or the verdict of the jury'therein: - 1st. He may make a .motion for a new trial before the trial judge, and, upon the overruling of the motion, may enter’ an- appeal to the
Judgment affirmed.