O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-6-61 (2019)

Writ lies against civil and military officers; Governor exempt

✓ 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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The question of who is the lawful Governor of this state may not be tried by quo warranto, but the writ of quo warranto will lie to all other civil or military officers.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3134; Code 1868, § 3146; Ga. L. 1871-72, p. 41, § 1; Code 1873, §§ 3202, 3206; Ga. L. 1875, p. 104,

§ 1; Code 1882, §§ 3202, 3206, 3208a; Civil Code 1895, §§ 4877, 4881, 4883; Civil Code 1910, §§ 5450, 5454, 5456; Code 1933, §§ 64-208, 64-209.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Writ applicable to civil officers. - Under former Code 1933, § 64-201 (see O.C.G.A. § 9-6-60), the writ of quo warranto applied only where the right of any person to a “public office” was involved, and in former Code 1933, § 64-208 and 64-209 (see O.C.G.A. § 9-6-61) the remedy applied where civil officers were con-

cerned. McDuffie v. Perkerson, 178 Ga. 230, 173 S.E. 151, 1933 Ga. LEXIS 36 (1933). Quo warranto will not lie to try title to office not shown to have legal existence. Sutton v. Adams, 180 Ga. 48, 178 S.E. 365, 1934 Ga. LEXIS 449 (1934).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 65 Am. Jur. 2d, Quo Warranto, §§ 19 et seq., 26 et seq.. C.J.S. 74 C.J.S., Quo Warranto, § 58. ALR. Officer holding over without authority

after expiration of his term as a de facto officer, 71 A.L.R. 848. Admissibility of election ballots in quo warranto proceedings, 71 A.L.R.2d 353.