O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-10-165 (2019)

Case not reached continued

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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A case not reached at the trial term stands over as continued.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3455; Code 1868, § 3475; Code 1873, § 3526; Code 1882, § 3526; Civil Code 1895, § 5133; Civil Code 1910, § 5719; Code 1933, § 81-1414.

Annotations

Cross references. Corresponding provision relating to criminal procedure, § 17-8-38.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Where action is not heard during trial term, it is automatically continued to succeeding term. Davenport v. Davenport, 218 Ga. 475, 128 S.E.2d 772, 1962 Ga. LEXIS 537 (1962). Refusal to set aside order dismissing motion for new trial proper. - Where plaintiff fails to present a brief of evidence on the hearing of plaintiff’s mo-

tion for new trial, and there is no merit to the plaintiff’s allegations as to an agreement to postpone the hearing, the trial judge properly refuses to set aside the judge’s order dismissing the plaintiff’s motion for new trial. Davenport v. Davenport, 218 Ga. 475, 128 S.E.2d 772, 1962 Ga. LEXIS 537 (1962).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 17 Am. Jur. 2d, Continuance, § 1 et seq.

C.J.S. 17 C.J.S., Continuances, §§ 15, 23.