Hammock v. Wm. J.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assumpsit — Talbot Superior Court. Tried before Judge Al-exander, September Term, 1848. Wm. J. and John McBride commenced suit against Hope H. Hammock, as the executor, de son tort, of Caleb Adams, deceased, on a note made by said Adams, for the sum of #787 06, dated April, 1841, and due 25th December, 1841, payable to William Towns, or bearer.
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Assumpsit — Talbot Superior Court. Tried before Judge Al-exander, September Term, 1848. Wm. J. and John McBride commenced suit against Hope H. Hammock, as the executor, de son tort, of Caleb Adams, deceased, on a note made by said Adams, for the sum of #787 06, dated April, 1841, and due 25th December, 1841, payable to William Towns, or bearer. Plaintiff proved by Daniel Mattkewson that, as Deputy Sheriff of Stewart County, on 1st Tuesday in February, 1844, he sold two negroes belonging to the estate of Caleb Adams — Noel, a boy, and Judy, a girl — and that said negroes were bid off by or for…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
Wm. J. and John McBride brought their action of assumpsit in the Superior Court of Talbot County, to charge Hope H. Hammock, as executor in his own wrong, of Caleb Adams, deceased, with the payment of their debt. Testimony was offered, to prove a fraudulent combination between the defendant, Didema Adams, the sister of the decedent, and others, to defeat the creditors of Caleb Adams; and among other things, to show that sundry Ji. fas. issuing from the Justice’s Court, in favor of Didema Adams, against her brother, and under which two of the…
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