Walker v. Morris
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, in Whitfield Superior Court. Tried before Judge John H, Lumpkin, April Term, 1853. The facts of this case are as follows : Joseph Collins was the drawer of a lot of land, in the County of Whitfield, which he sold to Thomas Glascock, late of Richmond county. Glascock died, and, in 1841, Andrew McLean was appointed his administrator.
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Ejectment, in Whitfield Superior Court. Tried before Judge John H, Lumpkin, April Term, 1853. The facts of this case are as follows : Joseph Collins was the drawer of a lot of land, in the County of Whitfield, which he sold to Thomas Glascock, late of Richmond county. Glascock died, and, in 1841, Andrew McLean was appointed his administrator. Glascock had been the administrator on the estate of one Priscilla Jones; and at the time of his death, had funds of said estate in his hands, amounting to about 3000 or 4000 dollars. Sundry fi. fas. were also in existence against him, which, after his…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Oourt.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] There can be but one possible objection to the validity of the deed, made to the plaintiffs under the judicial sale in Richmond county, and that is a want of jurisdiction in the Court ordering the proceeding. Concede the jurisdiction, and no error or irregularity in the mode of its exercise, can effect the purchaser’s title, or justify the attack made upon it in this collateral manner.
[2.] Apart from the sanction given to the proceeding by all the parties in interest, which fact appears upon the face of the record, can there be any doubt,…
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