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Court of Appeals
of the State of Georgia

                                         ATLANTA,____________________
                                                  December 19, 2023

The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:

A24E0039. BRANNER v. JOHNSON et al.

      The Petition for Writ of Mandamus filed by Charlie Branner Jr. is hereby
DENIED.1

                                         Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia
                                                Clerk’s Office, Atlanta,____________________
                                                                          12/19/2023
                                                I certify that the above is a true extract from
                                         the minutes of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.
                                                 Witness my signature and the seal of said court
                                         hereto affixed the day and year last above written.


                                                                                        , Clerk.




      1
        See Byrd v. Robinson,
349 Ga. App. 19
, 20 (
825 SE2d 424
) (2019) (“There may
occasionally appear to be a need to file an original petition in the [appellate courts] to
issue process in the nature of mandamus, and perhaps quo warranto or prohibition,
where a superior court judge is named as the respondent. This appearance is
misleading. Such petition may be filed in the appropriate superior court. Being the
respondent, the superior court judge will disqualify, another superior court judge will
be appointed to hear and determine the matter, and the final decision may be appealed
to the [appellate court] for review.”) (punctuation omitted).