STUBBS v. CARPENTER

No. S99A0949.

519 S.E.2d 451 (1999)

271 Ga. 327

STUBBS et al. v. CARPENTER.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

July 6, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stubbs & Associates, M. Francis Stubbs, Reidsville, for appellants.

Donald P. Carpenter, D. Duston Tapley, Jr., Vidalia, for appellee.


THOMPSON, Justice.

M. Francis Stubbs filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel Don P. Carpenter, the Judge of the State Court of Toombs County, to conduct civil trials in his court. At the hearing which followed, Stubbs established that the State Court of Toombs County is required to have four terms of court each year;1 but that no civil case has been tried in that court since November 1996— despite an apparent backlog and...

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