Legal Opinion

Jones v. Clark

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided August 15, 1877PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Gifts. Parent and child. Levy and sale. Before Judge Gibson. Richmond Superior Court. October Term, 1876. Reported in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was a claim case, on the trial of which the jury, under the charge of the court, found the land not subject to the fi.fa. levied thereon. The plantiff in fi-fa. made a motion for a new trial, on the grounds therein stated, which was overruled, and the plaintiff excepted. The land in controversy was levied on as the property of W. W. Hughes, who had made a parol gift of it to his son, George W. Hughes, and was claimed by Clark, his administrator, he being dead. The facts as disclosed by the evidence in the record were substantially as follows:

The debt was created…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Roe v. Doe ex dem. McKeeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1873

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Beall v. ClarkSupreme Court of Georgia · 1884
  2. Thaggard v. CrawfordSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
  3. Johnson v. GriffinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1888
  4. Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. RamsaySupreme Court of Georgia · 1910
  5. Swan Oil Co. v. LinderSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905

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