Legal Opinion

United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Lawrence

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 10, 1937No. 11411PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Atkinson, Justice.

A judgment, rendered on an agreed statement of facts, against a principal and his surety on a statutory replevy bond filed by a defendant in an attachment case, was on review affirmed by the Court of Appeals. The principal obligor in the replevy bond had no interest in sustaining the judgment of affirmance, and consequently was not a necessary party to a petition for certiorari addressed to the Supreme Court by the surety alone, and failure of the petitioner to join him as a party is not cause for dismissal of the petition for certiorari.

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2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. YesbikSupreme Court of Georgia · 1917
  2. Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. TomlinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1926
  3. Hutcheson Manufacturing Co. v. ChandlerCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1923
  4. Jossey v. Georgia & Alabama Railway Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1897
  5. Brooks v. HutchinsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Fowler v. Southern Airlines Inc.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1941
  2. State Ex Rel. Willamette National Lumber Co. v. Circuit CourtOregon Supreme Court · 1949
  3. Higgins v. Hampshire Products, Inc.Michigan Supreme Court · 1948
  4. Fowler v. Southern Airlines Inc.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1941
  5. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. LawrenceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1937

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