Mills v. Williams

Hawkins, Justice.

1. While equity jurisdiction ceases where the legislature gives a specific remedy at law (Newton Manufacturing Co. v. White, 47 Ga. 400; Osborn v. Ordinary of Harris County, 17 Ga. 123, (63 Am. D. 230), and while a specific legal remedy for partition is provided by statute (Code, §§ 85-1504 et seq.), and equity will not ordinarily take cognizance of a partition proceeding unless the remedy at law is insufficient, or peculiar circumstances render the proceeding in equity more suitable and just (Code, i 85-1501; Saffold v. Anderson, 162 Ga. 408, 134 S. E. 81)—accounting between…