Searcy v. Tillman
Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction. Justice Courts. Pleadings. Practice in Superior Court. Amendment. Practice in Supreme Court. Before Judge Willis. Taylor Superior Court. October Adjourned Term, 1884. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
Tillman brought three suits in a justice’s court against John Searcy and B. W. Searcy. Two of these suits were on notes for $100 each, with ten per cent added for fees to pay the expense of collection; the other was on a note for $75.00 and ten per cent as collection fees. No pleas were filed in either of these cases while pending in that court; each was carried by consent to the appeal in the superior court. Before the trial in that court, and when *506one term of the court had passed after the appeal, the defendant died, and his executrix being made a party, filed to each of them…
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