Walker v. Dougherty
Supreme Court of Georgia
Motion, in Muscogee Superior Court. Decided by Judge Iverson, May Term, 1853. At February Term, 1853, of the. Court of Ordinary of Muscogee county, letters of administration, pendente lite, were granted to William Dougherty, upon the estate of James C. Watson, deceased. The order granting the letters recited, “ That John H. Watson and Benj.
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Motion, in Muscogee Superior Court. Decided by Judge Iverson, May Term, 1853. At February Term, 1853, of the. Court of Ordinary of Muscogee county, letters of administration, pendente lite, were granted to William Dougherty, upon the estate of James C. Watson, deceased. The order granting the letters recited, “ That John H. Watson and Benj. W. Walker, were qualified as executors; that the letters to Watson were revoked at January Term, 1846, and the letters to Walker revoked at January Term, 1847; that at July Term, 1847, letters of administration were granted to Mansfield Torrance; that at…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
By oversight of the counsel for the plaintiff in error, the evidence before the Circuit Judge, in this case, and upon which his judgment was given, which -is now sought to be reversed, is not incorporated in the bill of exceptions. Neither is it contained in the transcript of the record. It is always with reluctance, that we are compelled to determine a case upon a partial or mutilated statement of the facts. Such decisions, however justified, upon technical rules, from which no Court can depart, are never satisfactory, either to the parties, or…
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