Manufacturers' Bank v. Goolsby
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari. Decided "by Judge Cole. At Chambers. December, 1866. This was an agreed case, brought before Judge Cole that he might review a decision made by the County Court of Bibb. Goolsby brought against the Manufacturers’ Bank of Macon, upon its bills or notes, forty-four suits, each for one hundred dollars, all of them commenced and served at the same time, and all returnable to the Aiigust monthly Term of the County Court.
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Certiorari. Decided "by Judge Cole. At Chambers. December, 1866. This was an agreed case, brought before Judge Cole that he might review a decision made by the County Court of Bibb. Goolsby brought against the Manufacturers’ Bank of Macon, upon its bills or notes, forty-four suits, each for one hundred dollars, all of them commenced and served at the same time, and all returnable to the Aiigust monthly Term of the County Court. Seven of them were-founded upon issues of the Bank prior to 1861; and the remaining thirty-seven, upon issues dated in 1862. At the appearance Term, counsel for the…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
Of the oppression, from the heavy costs which the plaintiff in error will necessarily sustain, by reason of the defendant in error having sued in the County Court, his claims broken up into amounts so as to be covered by the jurisdic*84tion of that Oourt, we are fully sensible. Had there been but one case, and brought to the Superior Oourt, the cost would not have exceeded fifteen dollars ; or if two, thirty dollars. As it is, there are forty-four suits ; and the probable costs will be over six hundred dollars. It is not right that such a state of things should exist; it will again and again…
2Cited by1 opinion
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