O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-10-4 (2019)

Trial of collateral issues

✓ 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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All collateral issues in the superior, state, or city courts, unless otherwise directed by law, shall be tried by jury.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3532; Code 1868, § 3555; Code 1873, § 3612; Code 1882, § 3612; Civil Code 1895, § 4948; Civil Code 1910, § 5525; Code 1933, § 81-1010.

Annotations

Cross references. Right to trial by jury generally, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Para. XI, and § 9-11-38.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Traverse of defendant’s answer in garnishment action is not a collateral issue. Strickland v. Maddox, 4 Ga. 393, 1848 Ga. LEXIS 45 (1848). Issue upon which the merits of the principal cause depends is not a collateral issue under this section. Mason & Dickinson v. Croom, 24 Ga. 211, 1858 Ga. LEXIS 186 (1858) (see O.C.G.A. § 9-10-4). Motion to dismiss on ground that plaintiff was non compos mentis is collateral issue. - When a motion is

made to dismiss based on the contention that the evidence showed the plaintiff to be absolutely non compos mentis when the action was filed and also at the time of the trial, the court may refer this collateral issue to the jury. Central of Ga. Ry. v. Harper, 124 Ga. 836, 53 S.E. 391, 1906 Ga. LEXIS 638 (1906).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 47 Am. Jur. 2d, Jury, § 25 et seq.. C.J.S. 50 C.J.S., Juries, §§ 7, 16, 28 et seq., 47, 50 et seq., 61, 68, 75, 77, 124 et seq.