Parks v. City of Atlanta

Bloodworth, J.

A petition for certiorari to review a judgment of the recorder’s court of the City of Atlanta, finding the defendant guilty of violating a municipal ordinance, was dismissed on motion of the attorney for the city; and the dismissal is complained of. No pauper affidavit was filed with the petition for certiorari, and no copy of the bond required by law is incorporated in the petition, nor is a certified copy thereof attached to it. The 'alleged copy of the bond which is attached to the petition is not identified' in any way, nor does it appear from the petition that the bond was accepted and approved by the clerk, nor is there any certificate from the clerk “that the bond was filed with him, and was approved and accepted by him.” Judge Broyles, in the case of Gillespie v. Macon, 19 Ga. App. 1 (90 S. E. 970), said: “The mere fact that ‘a bond’ was specified in the bill of exceptions as a material part of the record to be sent up to-this court, and that there is attached to the bill of exceptions what purports to, be a copy of a certiorari bond in the case’referred to, and that it appears from this copy that this bond was approved by the clerk of the recorder’s court of Macon, is not sufficient. Johns v. Tifton, 122 Ga. 734 (50 S. E. 941), and Veazey v. Crawfordville, 126 Ga. 89 (54 S. E. 817). All the essential facts as to the giving of the bond, its approval by the proper officer, etc., its condition, etc., should be affirmatively alleged in the petition for certiorari, and, in addition, a certified copy of the bond should be attached to the petition, together with a certificate from the clerk of the court (if there be a clerk), verifying the allegations in the petition that the 'bond has been approved and accepted by said clerk. Hubert v. Thomasville, 18 Ga. App. 756 (90 S. E. 720), Unless all of these things, are done, the certiorari should not be sanctioned, and, if sanctioned, should be dismissed on the hearing, as a petition for certiorari can in no ease be amended. This ruling is not in con-flict with Stallworth v. Macon, 125 Ga. 250 (54 S. E. 142), for in that case the petition for certiorari distinctly alleged that ‘petitioner .has filed with the clerk of .said, recorder’s court a bond, approved by the said clerk, . . . and said bond accepted by said clerk of said recorder’s court.’ As the mandatory provisions of the statute were not complied with in this case, the certiorari should not have been sanctioned. The judge of the superior court, however, having sanctioned it, committed no error in overruling and dismissing it after a hearing upon its merits. It does not appear in the judgment of dismissal for what reason the certiorari was overruled, but, as the judgment of dismissal was correct, it should nevertheless be affirmed. Memmler v. State, 75 Ga. 576 (1a); Kendricks v. Millen, 16 Ga. App. 273 (3), 277, 278 (85 S. E. 264); Flynn v. East Point, 18 Ga. App. 729 (90 S. E. 372).”

Under the ruling stated above, the court did not err in dismissing the certiorari in this case. ' •

Judgment affirmed:

Broyles, P. J., concurs. Harwell, J., dissents.