Jones v. Morgan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction as to slave debts. Attorney’s fees. Before Judge James M. Clark. Sumter Superior Court. October adjourned Term, 1868. In 1850, Francis M. Jones and his wife, Julia A., brought trover against said Morgan to recover certain slaves, or their value and hire. Francis M. had died, and the action was pending in the name of the said Julia A., as survivor.
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Jurisdiction as to slave debts. Attorney’s fees. Before Judge James M. Clark. Sumter Superior Court. October adjourned Term, 1868. In 1850, Francis M. Jones and his wife, Julia A., brought trover against said Morgan to recover certain slaves, or their value and hire. Francis M. had died, and the action was pending in the name of the said Julia A., as survivor. In January, 1869, when the cause was called for trial, defendant’s counsel moved to dismiss it, upon the ground that the Court was forbidden by the 1st clause of the 17th Section of Article V of the Constitution of Georgia, adopted the…
1Opinion of the CourtWarner, J.
It appears from the record in this case, that an action of trover and conversion was pending in the Superior Court of Sumter county, for the tortious conversion of certain negro slaves in the year 1850, and that the plaintiff and defendant had fraudulently settled said suit with notice of the claim of the plaintiff’s attorney’s lien for his fees due in said case,, and on motion of defendant’s counsel, the Court dismissed said suit for want of jurisdiction under the provisions of the Constitution of 1868, against the objections of the plaintiff’s counsel. According to my individual views upon…
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