Georgia Real Estate Commission v. Burnette, 34528
| Decision Date | 17 April 1979 |
| Docket Number | No. 34528,34528 |
| Citation | 243 Ga. 516,255 S.E.2d 38 |
| Parties | GEORGIA REAL ESTATE COMMISSION v. BURNETTE. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., Kirby G. Atkinson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.
William T. Johnson, Griffin, for appellee.
The Georgia Real Estate Commission appeals from an order of the superior court setting aside the Commission's order suspending Burnette's real estate broker's license for a period of 90 days. Burnette had appealed to the superior court pursuant to Section 20 of the Administrative Procedure Act. Code Ann. § 3A-120.
1. The superior court erred in passing upon Burnette's objections relating to the composition of the Commission because those objections first were urged in the superior court, rather than before the Commission. Code Ann. § 3A-120(c); Dept. of Public Safety v. MacLafferty, 230 Ga. 22, 195 S.E.2d 748 (1973); Clark v. Ga. Real Estate Comm., 129 Ga.App. 741, 200 S.E.2d 926 (1973); Dept. of Public Safety v. Foreman, 130 Ga.App. 71, 202 S.E.2d 196 (1973). The authorization to the superior court set forth in Code Ann. § 3A-120(g) to hear evidence relating to alleged irregularities in procedure before the agency that are not shown in the record is an exception to the principle that review by the superior court shall be confined to the record but is not an exception to the principle stated in Code Ann. § 3A-120(c) requiring objections to agency decisions or orders to be urged in the first instance before the agency. The case of Olley Valley Estates v. Fussell, 232 Ga. 779, 208 S.E.2d 801 (1974) is inapposite as it did not involve review of an agency order in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
2. The "any evidence rule" applies to review of agency findings of fact. Hall v. Ault, 240 Ga. 585, 242 S.E.2d 101 (1978). There was evidence to support the Commission's findings. The trial court erred in substituting its judgment for that of the agency as to the weight of the evidence. Code Ann. § 3A-120(h); Flowers v. Ga. Real Estate Comm., 141 Ga.App. 105, 232 S.E.2d 586 (1977).
3. The trial court erred also by reaching and deciding the constitutionality of Ga.L.1973, pp. 100, 117, Code Ann. § 84-1421(24), because no constitutional challenge was made during the proceedings before the agency. Flint River Mills v. Henry, 234 Ga. 385, 216 S.E.2d 895 (1975); Dept. of Public Safety v. Foreman, 130 Ga.App. 71, 202 S.E.2d 196 (1973)...
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