Black v. Harper
Supreme Court of Georgia
Arbitrament and award. Practice in the Superior Court. Fraud. Before Judge Pottle. Oglethorpe Superior Court. April Term, 1879. Harper and Black had a controversy about certain land. The former claimed that he had bought of the latter 240 acres at $7.50 per acre ; the latter claimed that the sale was of 200 acres at $9.00 per acre. Harper also claimed that the land was less than it purported to be, and that he should have certain credits allowed him in settlement.
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Arbitrament and award. Practice in the Superior Court. Fraud. Before Judge Pottle. Oglethorpe Superior Court. April Term, 1879. Harper and Black had a controversy about certain land. The former claimed that he had bought of the latter 240 acres at $7.50 per acre ; the latter claimed that the sale was of 200 acres at $9.00 per acre. Harper also claimed that the land was less than it purported to be, and that he should have certain credits allowed him in settlement. The matter was submitted to arbitration. The evidence was conflicting. The arbitrators, on the main issues, awarded in favor of…
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This case came before the court belo-w on exceptions filed to an award of arbitrators under the provision of the 4243d section of the Code. On the hearing of the exceptions and a demurrer thereto, the court rendered the following judgment: “An award having been made in this case and exceptions filed thereto, and counsel for defendant haviug filed his demurrer to said exceptions, it is ordered that the demurrer be sustained to all the exceptions except the fourth, to-wit: newly discovered evidence as supported by the affidavit of E. G. Roane, and that the case be sent…
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