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# Ga. Const. Art. VI, Sec. I, Para. VIII. Transfer of cases.

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Any court shall transfer to the appropriate court in the state any civil case in which it determines that jurisdiction or venue lies elsewhere.

## Cross References

Transfers and changes of venue in magistrate court proceedings, Uniform Rules for the Magistrate Courts, Rule 18.

## Law Reviews

For annual survey on trial practice and procedure, see 38 Mercer L. Rev. 383 (1986). For article, ‘‘The Civil Jurisdiction of State and Magistrate Courts,’’ see 24 Ga. St. B.J. 29 (1987).

## 1976 Constitution.

Art. VI, Sec. II, Para. IV.

## Improper Venue.

Trial court erred in dismissing an employee’s breach of contract suit against a corporation based on improper venue where the appropriate remedy would have been to transfer the case to another court with proper venue as provided by Ga. Sup. Ct. R. 19.1 and Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VI, Sec. I, Para. VIII. Farrell v. HRC Armco, Inc., 253 Ga. App. 633, 560 S.E.2d 107 (2002).

Where the decedent’s grandniece filed a caveat to the probate of the will in solemn form on grounds of undue influence and contract to make a will and then filed an identical complaint in the superior court, the superior court was an improper venue for the contract to make a will action, as the co-executors did not live in the county where the action was filed as was required under Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VI, Sec. II, Para. VI; as a result, the case had to be transferred to the appropriate superior court as provided under Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VI, Sec. I, Para. VIII. SunTrust Bank v. Peterson, 263 Ga. App. 378, 587 S.E.2d 849 (2003).

## Venue Proper.

Venue was appropriate in the trial court and the court’s finding to the contrary was erroneous, but the error was harmless given that the trial court retained the case instead of transferring the case, the third-party defendant was not dismissed from the case, and the trial court correctly granted summary judgment to the third-party defendant on a separate basis. Bostick v. CMM Props., 327 Ga. App. 137, 755 S.E.2d 895 (2014).

Cited in Long v. Bruner, 171 Ga. App. 124, 318 S.E.2d 818 (1984); Unger v. Bryant Equip. Sales & Servs., Inc., 173 Ga. App. 364, 326 S.E.2d 483 (1985); Edwards v. Edmondson, 173 Ga. App. 353, 326 S.E.2d 550 (1985); Bosma v. Gunter, 258 Ga. 664, 373 S.E.2d 368 (1988); Douglas v. Gilbert, 195 Ga. App. 796, 395 S.E.2d 9 (1990); McDonald v. MARTA, 251 Ga. App. 2306, 554 S.E.2d 226 (2001); In re Estate of Dasher, 259 Ga. App. 201, 575 S.E.2d 921 (2002); Live Oak Consulting, Inc. v. Dep’t of Cmty. Health, 281 Ga. App. 791, 637 S.E.2d 455 (2006); Ford v. Hanna, 292 Ga. 500, 739 S.E.2d 309 (2013); In the Interest of M. F., 298 Ga. 138, 780 S.E.2d 291 (2015).