Lee v. Lee
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Troup Superior Court. Decision by Judge Bull, at chambers, on the second day of February, i860. Charles S. Lee filed his Bill in Equity, in the Superior Court of Troup county, against Moses Lee, alleging: That in the years 1833 and 1834, and after that time, he paid off for his brother, the said Moses Lee, divers judgments, obtained in the Superior Court, and in the Justice’s Court of Greene county, Georgia; that some of the judgments so paid off • were…
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In Equity, in Troup Superior Court. Decision by Judge Bull, at chambers, on the second day of February, i860. Charles S. Lee filed his Bill in Equity, in the Superior Court of Troup county, against Moses Lee, alleging: That in the years 1833 and 1834, and after that time, he paid off for his brother, the said Moses Lee, divers judgments, obtained in the Superior Court, and in the Justice’s Court of Greene county, Georgia; that some of the judgments so paid off • were obtained against the said • Moses Lee aloné, and some were obtained against the said Moses Lee, as principal, and the…
1Opinion of the Court
*32By the Court.
Jenkins, J.,
delivering the opinion.
The judgment of the Court below is placed upon the ground that the complainant’s demands are of a strictly legal character, and may be proven as well in a Court of La,w as in a Court of Equity. The real question is, whether they may be established, by plea of set-off to the action pending- at law, as well as by a proceeding in equity, engrafted upon that action. We regard the proposition of the Court below as an affirmation that they may.
There ¿ire two classes of these demands, amounting in the aggregate to a large sum, the consideration of…
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