Moore v. Ferrell

By the Court

Nisbet, Judge.

This cause came before this court, upon a transcript of the record, from the county of Gilmer. The plaintiff in error, Michael C. Moore, filed his bill in the court below, alleging that, as a fortunate drawer in the land lottery, he is the rightful owner of a lot of land situate in the county of Gilmer — that there is on it a rich, and therefore valuable, gold mine— that the defendants, Ferrell and others, being in possession, are engaged in digging gold from the mine, and are daily carrying away large quantities of gold — that they are either insolvent, or so poor…