Attaway v. Carswell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ordinary. Administrator. Evidence. Practice. Before Judge Roney. Burke superior court. May term, 1891. To the November term, 1885, of Burke superior court Attaway et al. brought ejectment against Carswell.
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Ordinary. Administrator. Evidence. Practice. Before Judge Roney. Burke superior court. May term, 1891. To the November term, 1885, of Burke superior court Attaway et al. brought ejectment against Carswell. In 1886 Carswell petitioned the court of ordinary that two orders alleged to have been passed by that court in 1874, but never to have been entered upon its minutes, be entered nunc pro tunc; one of the ordei’s being for the appointment of Bell as administrator upon the estate of M. Y. Attaway (under whom the plaintiffs in ejectment claimed), and the other being for the sale by the…
1Opinion of the Court
*344 Judqment affirmed.
Error in admitting, over objection, a receipted bill dated November 1, 1874, in favor of Lawson, ordinary, against Bell, administrator of M. Y. Attaway, containing various items of 'ordinary’s costs; also, a bill against Bell,-administrator, in favor of the Waynesboro Expositor, for advertising an application for leave to sell land, and an administrator’s sale of land on September 10 and October 8, 1874, with an acknowledgment of receipt of payment signed by J. E. Frost. Error in refusing to charge : “The applicants have introduced a deed from the person they claim to have…
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