Coker v. Birge
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Pike Superior Court. Dissolution of the injunction, upon the filing of the answer, by Judge Stark, at Chambers.
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In Equity, in Pike Superior Court. Dissolution of the injunction, upon the filing of the answer, by Judge Stark, at Chambers. The bill alleged that complainant, on 12th day of November, 1850, purchased the Griffin Hotel, situated upon Broad-street, in the City of Griffin, Pike County, for the purpose of keeping open the same as a hotel, to which business it had been appropriated for several years previous; that the defendant, on or about the 20th day of the same month, commenced building, and is now actually proceeding to erect a livery stable, upon a lot contiguous to that upon which the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
This was an application to Judge Stark, at Chambers, to dissolve an injunction.
*338[1.] The bill states, that the complainant, James Coker, became the proprietor of the Griffin Hotel, on Broadway, in the City of Griffin, on the 12th day of November, 1850 ; that the property is chiefly valuable from the fact of its being a hotel, and that it has been occupied and kept for that purpose since the year 1843, and that such was complainant’s object in purchasing the property — the value of which is estimated at f3000 per annum. The bill charges, that the…
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