Syfert Injury Law Firm

Your Trusted Partner in Personal Injury & Workers' Compensation

Call Now: 904-383-7448
O.C.G.A. § 9-13-2 — Execution suspended by appeal | Georgia Code
O.C.G.A. § 9-13-2 (2018) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Scholar Amendments

TITLE 9 CIVIL PRACTICE

Section 13. Executions and Judicial Sales, 9-13-1 through 9-13-178.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-13-2. Execution suspended by appeal.

If execution is issued before the expiration of the time allowed for entering an appeal, the execution will be suspended on the entering of an appeal by either party.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 3556; Code 1868, § 3579; Code 1873, § 3634; Code 1882, § 3634; Civil Code 1895, § 5415; Civil Code 1910, § 6020; Code 1933, § 39-115.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Supersedeas, during its pendency, prevents any steps to enforce judgment, such as issuing an execution based thereon. Tanner v. Wilson, 184 Ga. 628, 192 S.E. 425 (1937); Bank S. v. Roswell Jeep Eagle, Inc., 200 Ga. App. 489, 408 S.E.2d 503 (1991).

Execution is not void because issued before expiration of time for appeal after judgment. Denton Bros. v. Hannah, 12 Ga. App. 494, 77 S.E. 672 (1913).

Cited in Hancock v. Tifton Guano Co., 19 Ga. App. 185, 91 S.E. 246 (1917); Mock v. Canterbury Realty Co., 152 Ga. App. 872, 264 S.E.2d 489 (1980).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 5 Am. Jur. 2d, Appellate Review, § 387.

C.J.S.

- 33 C.J.S., Executions, § 247 et seq.

ALR.

- Effect of supersedeas or stay on antecedent levy, 90 A.L.R.2d 483.

Database error: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 8 attempt to write a readonly database

This Georgia Code resource is curated by a Florida and Georgia attorney, a personal injury and workers' compensation attorney admitted in Georgia (State Bar of Georgia No. 881027, since 2006) and Florida. Attorney Syfert regularly works with Title 9 in the context of Georgia civil practice and statute of limitations and represents clients throughout Northeast Florida and South Georgia. For legal consultation, call 904-383-7448.