Puckett v. Heaton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Receivership, etc. Before Judge Irwin. Haralson superior court. March 13, 1920. On June 26, 1917, W. W. Heaton filed a complaint for land against Dug Puckett, alleging that he was the owner of a certain fifty acres of land in the southwest corner of land lot Ho. 10 in the 9th district and 5th section of Haralson County; and that the defendant was in possession of the land and refused to deliver possession or to pay plaintiff the annual profits, which he alleged to ba $200…
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Receivership, etc. Before Judge Irwin. Haralson superior court. March 13, 1920. On June 26, 1917, W. W. Heaton filed a complaint for land against Dug Puckett, alleging that he was the owner of a certain fifty acres of land in the southwest corner of land lot Ho. 10 in the 9th district and 5th section of Haralson County; and that the defendant was in possession of the land and refused to deliver possession or to pay plaintiff the annual profits, which he alleged to ba $200 per year. On September 29, 1917, the defendant filed his answer denying title in the plaintiff, setting up an equitable…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
1. Where one who brought complaint for land subsequently filed £tu ancillary petition asking for injunction and receiver on account of waste alleged to have been committed by the defendant, and on the hearing a temporary injunction was refused, and no exception was taken; and where subsequently, after a lapse of two years from the filing of the first ancillary petition, a second ancillary petition was filed, and on the hearing of the last petition it appeared that the proceeding instituted by the plaintiff to recover the land had always been continued by the defendant from time to time, the…
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