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2018 Georgia Code 15-2-2 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 2. Supreme Court, 15-2-1 through 15-2-47.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-2-2. When Justice providentially prevented from attending.

Whenever one or more of the Justices of the Supreme Court are unable from providential cause to preside in any case and the parties desire a full bench, it shall be the duty of the remaining Justices to designate a judge or judges of the superior court to preside in the place of the absent Justice or Justices of the Supreme Court.

(Ga. L. 1888, p. 40, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 5506; Civil Code 1910, § 6109; Code 1933, § 24-4008.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Johnson v. Walls, 185 Ga. 177, 194 S.E. 380 (1937); Stokes v. Fortson, 234 F. Supp. 575 (N.D. Ga. 1964).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 46 Am. Jur. 2d, Judges, § 227 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 48A C.J.S., Judges, §§ 37, 40, 41.

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 15-2-2

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Friends of the Chattahoochee, Inc. v. Longleaf Energy Assocs., 684 S.E.2d 632 (Ga. 2009).

Cited 2 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Oct 5, 2009 | 285 Ga. 859, 2009 Fulton County D. Rep. 3152

...y to replace a disqualified Justice with a judge from the Court of Appeals or a superior court and by the fact the parties do not know the identity of that substitute judge in advance. See Georgia Constitution of 1983, Art. VI, Sec. VI, Par. I; OCGA § 15-2-2; Rule 57 of the Supreme Court of Georgia....