Coffee v. Newsom
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Pulaski Superior Court. This was a bill in. Equity, brought by the plaintiffs in error against the defendant in error, returnable to Pulaski Superior Court, and tried before Judge Hansell, at the Term, 1850. The bill charged that in August, 1843, the complainants, Peter H. and John B. Coffee,, entered into a treaty with the defendant’s testator, Batts Newsom, for the purchase of the entire settlement of lands then claimed to be owned by him in the Counties of…
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In Equity, in Pulaski Superior Court. This was a bill in. Equity, brought by the plaintiffs in error against the defendant in error, returnable to Pulaski Superior Court, and tried before Judge Hansell, at the Term, 1850. The bill charged that in August, 1843, the complainants, Peter H. and John B. Coffee,, entered into a treaty with the defendant’s testator, Batts Newsom, for the purchase of the entire settlement of lands then claimed to be owned by him in the Counties of Telfair and Pulaski; that in the progress of said treaty, and to induce them to make the purchase, the said Batts…
1Opinion of the Court
*448 By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
An injunction was obtained in this ease, upon the fraud charged against the testator of the defendant. Is the answer of the executor, who admits his ignorance as to the principal allegations in the bill, but expresses his belief that they are untrue, sufficient to dissolve the injunction ?
Believing that in the decisions of Courts, as well as the arguments of counsel, the chief of all perfections is, to be plain, pertinent and brief, I shall endeavor, in the present instance, to conform my practice to my principles.
[1.] We understand the general…
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