Legal Opinion

Stephens v. Tucker

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 15, 1877PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Mortgages. Levy and Sale. Before Judge Clark. Lee Superior Court. November Term, 1876. Report unnecessary.

1Opinion of the Court

Jackson, Judge.

This case was here before. It will be found reported in 55 Ga. 543. There we held that the instrument foreclosed was a mortgage, and as a mortgage, that it was properly foreclosed; and we reversed the court below because the levy was dismissed on the ground that the paper was not a mortgage. It was a mortgage upon six bales of a growing crop, to be packed and hooped in a certain way, and delivered at a certain place. "We held that if any six certain bales could be identified by parol evidence as the six mortgaged, that the description would do. The cotton was m posse, not m…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Stephens v. TuckerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1875

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Brown v. HughesSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1913

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