Poullain v. Brown
Supreme Court of Georgia
Bonds. Administrators and executors. Devastavit. Principal and surety. Crops. Sales. Presumptions. Evidence. Verdict. New trial. Practice. Before Judge Jenkins. Green superior court. March adjourned term, 1888. This case was once before in the Supreme Court, (80' Ga. 27,) and the pleadings in it up to that time will be found sufficiently reported in the decision rendered by Justice Blandeord.
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Bonds. Administrators and executors. Devastavit. Principal and surety. Crops. Sales. Presumptions. Evidence. Verdict. New trial. Practice. Before Judge Jenkins. Green superior court. March adjourned term, 1888. This case was once before in the Supreme Court, (80' Ga. 27,) and the pleadings in it up to that time will be found sufficiently reported in the decision rendered by Justice Blandeord. The case had been referred to an auditor, who had reported various liabilities of the defendants, as sureties on the bonds given by Seabrook as administrator de bonis non, and administrator de bonis non…
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
James L. Brown, administrator de bonis non, etc. of Dawson, brought his action against Thomas N, Poullain, as surety on the administrator’s bond of Seabrook, and also brought another action against Poullain and Ann C. Davis, administratrix of her husband, as sureties on another administrator’s bond of Seabrook. Both cases, involving the same issues, were consolidated in the court below. The plaintifi recovered, and the defendants made a motion for a new trial on the several grounds set out therein, which motion was overruled ; and they excepted.
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