Harvey Bros. v. Jewell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari. Attachment. Claim. Admissions. Title. Yerdiet. Charge of court. Evidence. Practice. Before Judge Maddox. Eloyd superior court. March adjourned term, 1889. Attachment in favor of Jewell against Johnson, levied on a mare, to which a claim was interposed by Harvey Brothers. The property was found subject by a jury in the city court of Floyd county.
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Certiorari. Attachment. Claim. Admissions. Title. Yerdiet. Charge of court. Evidence. Practice. Before Judge Maddox. Eloyd superior court. March adjourned term, 1889. Attachment in favor of Jewell against Johnson, levied on a mare, to which a claim was interposed by Harvey Brothers. The property was found subject by a jury in the city court of Floyd county. The claimants moved for a new trial, which was denied; and by certiorari to the superior court, this denial was assigned as error. There the judge passed the order quoted in the opinion, and the claimants excepted. For the rest of .the…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. One of the errors assigned is that the court erred in refusing to sustain the certiorari. This brings up the whole merits of the case as embodied in the return of the judge of the city court to the writ of certiorari. The error imputed to the city court in the petition for certiorari is, in overruling the motion made in that court for a new trial, which motion was predicated on the general grounds, on the special ground that the verdict was contrary to the charge of the court, and on two other special grounds. The general grounds and that which alleges that the…
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