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2018 Georgia Code 5-4-8 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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O.C.G.A. 5-4-8 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 5-4-8

TITLE 5 APPEAL AND ERROR

Section 4. Certiorari to Superior Court, 5-4-1 through 5-4-20.

ARTICLE 2 PROCEDURE

5-4-8. Writing or dictation of answer by parties, attorneys, or interested persons; when verification required.

The answer shall not be written or dictated by either of the parties, or their attorneys, or any other person interested in the merits of the case. If made after the party making the same has retired from office, it shall be verified by affidavit.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 3971; Code 1868, § 3991; Code 1873, § 4063; Code 1882, § 4063; Civil Code 1895, § 4648; Civil Code 1910, § 5197; Code 1933, § 19-303.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

First sentence of section is mandatory. Lee v. Continental Cas. Co., 20 Ga. App. 714, 93 S.E. 262 (1917).

Section applies where a second answer is prepared by former counsel in case. Lee v. Continental Cas. Co., 20 Ga. App. 714, 93 S.E. 262 (1917).

Section inapplicable to refusal to answer. Zachery v. State, 106 Ga. 123, 32 S.E. 22 (1898).

Section does not prevent justice from adopting recitals of fact in petition. Davis v. Rhodes, 112 Ga. 106, 37 S.E. 169 (1900).

Retired police justice may perfect answer, although the justice is assistant city attorney, if not counsel in case. Phillips v. City of Atlanta, 87 Ga. 62, 13 S.E. 201 (1891).

Oral objection may lie to unverified affidavit. Love v. Bush, 21 Ga. App. 436, 94 S.E. 626 (1917).

Cited in Combs v. State, 9 Ga. App. 840, 72 S.E. 284 (1911); Blackwood v. City of Social Circle, 125 Ga. App. 676, 188 S.E.2d 823 (1972).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 14 C.J.S., Certiorari, § 47 et seq.

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