Osborn v. Ordinary of Harris County ex rel. Huey
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Harris Superior Court. Decision on demurrer by Judge Crawford, September Term, 1854. This bill was filed by the wards of Alexander S. Huey, tbeir former guardian and his sureties, (William C. Osborn and another) on his bond as guardian, praying an account, and alleging a breach of his bond in his failure to account.
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In Equity, in Harris Superior Court. Decision on demurrer by Judge Crawford, September Term, 1854. This bill was filed by the wards of Alexander S. Huey, tbeir former guardian and his sureties, (William C. Osborn and another) on his bond as guardian, praying an account, and alleging a breach of his bond in his failure to account. The bill charged that Alexander S. Huey had removed from the State of Georgia and lived in Arkansas; that he was utterly insolvent, having wasted and converted to his own use all of their property; that before he left Georgia, he placed in the hands of each of his…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
According to the case made by the bill, had the complainants a complete remedy at Law ?
[1.] The rule now well settled in this State is, that in reference to partitions, the establishment of lost papers, the foreclosure of mortgages, the settlement of accounts, &c. that notwithstanding, by the English law, as adopted here, Chancery may have had concurrent or even exclusive jurisdiction over these or any other subject, still, if full rédress has beén provided by Statute, Equity, in that case, is ousted of its jurisdiction, unless a special case is…
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