This article shall govern civil proceedings in the magistrate court.
(Code 1981, §15-10-40, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 884, § 2-1.)
Law reviews.- For annual survey of trial practice and procedure, see 38 Mercer L. Rev. 383 (1986).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Voluntary dismissal rule did not apply in magistrate court.
- Trial court erred in relying on O.C.G.A. § 9-11-41 in finding that a tenant failed to object to the landlord's voluntary dismissal of its magistrate court dispossessory action, resulting in the dismissal of the tenant's counterclaim to that action; the Civil Practice Act, O.C.G.A. § 9-11-1 et seq., did not apply to magistrate court suits, O.C.G.A. §§ 15-10-40 and15-10-42, and there was nothing to indicate that the magistrate court opted to follow the Civil Practice Act as permitted by O.C.G.A. § 15-10-44. Howell v. Beauly, LLC, 337 Ga. App. 898, 789 S.E.2d 214 (2016).