Shorter v. Marshall
Supreme Court of Georgia
New trial. Interrogatories. Statute of limitations. "Witness. William B. Marshall brought complaint against George Hargraves, administrator, and Mary E. Shorter, administratrix, upon the estate of James H. Shorter, deceased, on an open account for $100 00, for one fifty-saw gin.
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New trial. Interrogatories. Statute of limitations. "Witness. William B. Marshall brought complaint against George Hargraves, administrator, and Mary E. Shorter, administratrix, upon the estate of James H. Shorter, deceased, on an open account for $100 00, for one fifty-saw gin. The declaration was filed in office on March 1st, 1869. By an amendment, the plaintiff struck the name of “ George Hargraves, admistrator,” and also the term “ administratrix,” following the name of Mary E. Shorter, from the declaration, leaving the suit to proceed against the latter individually. The defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant on an open amount for $100 00, the price for a fifty-saw cotton gin. On the trial of the case the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. A motion was made for a new trial on the several grounds set forth in the record; which was *36overruled by the Court, and the defendant excepted. There was no error in overruling the objection to the execution of the interrogatories, inasmuch as the answers of the witness were, by consent, taken without a commission issued by the Court, and not having been taken under the…
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- Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1882
- Sheppard v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1928
- Hammond v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1956
- Findlay v. Mineralized Rubber Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1896
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