Legal Opinion

Dickerson v. Burke

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 15, 1858PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Assumpsit, from Carroll county. Tried before Judge Hammond, October Term, 1857. The facts of this case are fully stated in the opinion of the Court.

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court

McDonald, J.

delivering the opinion.

The defendant in error sued the plaintiff in error in the Court below, on a promissory note in the following words : iCBy the 25th Dec., 1855, we or either of us promise to pay James B. Goddard or bearer 864 17-100 dollars, value rec’d., the above Goddard agrees to pay out of the said note, the expenses of a law suit, if any occurs in good faith, about the land this day sold by the said Goddard to the makers of this-note, between this day and the time the note falls due; the land is lots No. 224 and 223, in the 3d district of Carroll county, Ga.,…

2Cited by8 opinions

  1. Newton v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1884
  2. Carlin v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1914
  3. Perkins v. GuyMississippi Supreme Court · 1877
  4. Tenny v. MulvaneyOregon Supreme Court · 1880
  5. Rolfe v. Inhabitants of RumfordSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1877

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