In the case of actions by informers to recover any fine, forfeiture, or penalty, the first filed in the clerk's office shall have precedence for the same cause of action and the latter filed actions shall abate.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2837; Code 1868, § 2845; Code 1873, § 2896; Code 1882, § 2896; Civil Code 1895, § 3740; Civil Code 1910, § 4334; Code 1933, § 3-606.)
Cross references.- Time limitations on bringing of actions by informers to recover fine, forfeiture, or penalty, § 9-3-28.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Cited in Heath v. Bates, 70 Ga. 633 (1883).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 1 Am. Jur. 2d, Abatement, Survival, and Revival, § 12 et seq.
C.J.S.- 1 C.J.S., Abatement and Revival, §§ 24, 44 et seq.
ALR.
- Statute requiring filing of formal notice of lis pendens in certain classes of cases as affecting common-law doctrine of lis pendens in other cases, 10 A.L.R. 306.
Action or suit as abating mandamus proceeding or vice versa, 37 A.L.R. 1432.
Abatement by pendency of another action as affected by addition or omission of parties defendant in second suit, 44 A.L.R. 806.
ARTICLE 4 DISMISSAL AND RENEWAL