Cox v. Mayor of Griffin
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Spalding Superior Court. Decision by Judge Starke, May Term, 1854. The bill alleges, that some time previous to tbe month of June, in the year 1840, the Monróe Rail Road and Banking Company being then the owner of the land, laid off the plan of the present City of Griffin, then located in the County of Pike; that a map of the plan was made out, and afterwards all the lots, except certain reserved lots, were advertised and sold at public outcry; that by the…
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In Equity, in Spalding Superior Court. Decision by Judge Starke, May Term, 1854. The bill alleges, that some time previous to tbe month of June, in the year 1840, the Monróe Rail Road and Banking Company being then the owner of the land, laid off the plan of the present City of Griffin, then located in the County of Pike; that a map of the plan was made out, and afterwards all the lots, except certain reserved lots, were advertised and sold at public outcry; that by the advertisements, and according to the plan of the city, as laid off on the map, certain lots, named in the bill, were…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Starnes, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] In noticing the first point made by the plea in bar to this bill, it is only necessary to say, that the withdrawal of the claim which had been interposed by the predecessors of the defendant in error, previously to the filing of their first bill, did not affect their right to file that bill, as is insisted by the plaintiffs in error.
[2.] Nor did the dismissal of that bill, upon which an injunction had been granted, deprive them of the right to obtain a second injunction. For by the Act of 1842, the issuing of a second injunction is placed…
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