Legal Opinion

Giles v. Gano

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided August 7, 1897PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Levy and claim. Before Judge Felton. Crawford superior court. October term, 1896.

1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, P. J.

Under the decision of this court in Balkcom v. Empire Lumber Company, 91 Ga. 651, which upon a review thereof is affirmed, the making and carrying into effect of a contract whereby the owner of land upon which was standing timber sold to the proprietor of a sawmill “seventy-four acres of timber” at the price of “three dollars per acre,” the same to be cut and hauled by the purchaser, did not, under section 2809 of the Civil Code (Code 1882, §1985), entitle the seller to a lien upon the sawmill and its products.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring.

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Balkcom v. Empire Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1893

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Loud & Beugnot v. Pritchett & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1898
  2. Slappey v. CharlesCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1910
  3. Ray v. Schmidt & Co.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1910
  4. Davis v. CoxCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1913
  5. Walraven v. DeFoorCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1954