Touchton v. Echols County

• Decision Date: 11 October 1954
• Docket Number: No. 18744,18744
• Citation: 211 Ga. 89,84 S.E.2d 88
• Parties: A. W. TOUCHTON v. ECHOLS COUNTY.
• Court: Georgia Supreme Court

Page 88

84 S.E.2d 88

211 Ga. 89

A. W. TOUCHTON v. ECHOLS COUNTY.

No. 18744.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Oct. 11, 1954.

Error from Superior Court, Echols County; George R. Lilly, Judge.

J. E. B. Stewart, Atlanta, for plaintiff in error.

John W. Langdale, Valdosta, for defendant in error.

Syllabus Opinion by the Court.

HEAD, Justice.

The judgment granting the mandamus absolute having been reversed, it is directed, on the return of the remittitur in that case, Touchton v. Echols County, Ga.Sup., 84 S.E.2d 81, that the judgment in this case, adjudging the respondent to be in contempt of court, be vacated. Ficklen v. Mayor and Council of City of Washington, 141 Ga. 441, 81 S.E. 123; Dunn v. Campbell, 146 Ga. 227, 91 S.E. 84; Harris v. Abney, 208 Ga. 588, 589(2), 68 S.E.2d 577.

Judgment reversed, with direction.

All the Justices concur.