Hallett, Seaver & Burbank v. Blain & Harris
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari. Garnishment. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge Harris. Glynn Superior Court. May Term, 1816. Hallett, Seaver & Burbank brought three suits in a justice court against Blain & Harris, on promissory notes aggregating $260.00, principal. Garnishments were sued out and served on X). T. Dunn.
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Certiorari. Garnishment. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge Harris. Glynn Superior Court. May Term, 1816. Hallett, Seaver & Burbank brought three suits in a justice court against Blain & Harris, on promissory notes aggregating $260.00, principal. Garnishments were sued out and served on X). T. Dunn. He admitted in his answer that he had in his hands for collection two promissory notes belonging to defendants, each for $900.00, principal, but one reduced by a credit of $500.00. The defendants were in default. The justice rendered judgment against the defendants, and against the…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Judge.
Dunn, the garnishee, answered that he had two notes be*143longing to defendants for collection for their creditors, on one of which five hundred dollars had been credited, each note being originally for $900.00. Whereupon the justice of the peace gave judgment against the defendants, Blain & Harris, and against Dunn, the garnishee, personally, and particularly against the two notes.
1. When this case was here before—56 Ga., 525—it appearing that no issue of fact was involved which required it to be sent back to the justice court, we reversed the judgment which sent it back to be…
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