Bird v. Burgsteiner
Supreme Court of Georgia
Affidavit of illegality. Before Judge Ealligant. Effing-ham superior court. May term, 1896. Ejectment was brought upon the demise of James Burgsteiner to recover “All that tract or parcel of land situate-lying and being in the village of Whitesville in the county of Effingham and State aforesaid, containing two acres more' or less, and running from a stake on the west side of the Central Railroad down to Corbet’s ditch, and thence down the ditch to Corbet’s line, and thence…
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Affidavit of illegality. Before Judge Ealligant. Effing-ham superior court. May term, 1896. Ejectment was brought upon the demise of James Burgsteiner to recover “All that tract or parcel of land situate-lying and being in the village of Whitesville in the county of Effingham and State aforesaid, containing two acres more' or less, and running from a stake on the west side of the Central Railroad down to Corbet’s ditch, and thence down the ditch to Corbet’s line, and thence taking up said line to' the Central Railroad in an easterly direction; said two acres' being a part of a five acre lot…
1Opinion of the Court
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1. Counsel for plaintiff in error, by his brief filed here, withdrew from our consideration all of the various grounds •contained in the affidavit of illegality, except the 4th, 5th, .and 7th; and our decision will be confined to a review of the •questions raised by those grounds, and whether the court below erred in sustaining a general demurrer thereto. There were eight specific 'grounds set out in the affidavit, in each ■of which it was claimed the execution had issued or was proceeding illegally; and we are not to be understood, in…
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