Legal Opinion

Reid v. Jordan

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 15, 1876PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Presumptions. Judgments. Justice courts. Before Judge Bartlett. Putnam Superior Court. September Term, 1875. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Warner, Chief Justice.

This case came before the court below on an appeal from a justice’s court on an affidavit of illegality. On the trial of the case in the superior court, the court charged the jury that the affidavit of illegality, as set forth, was insufficient, and directed the jury to find a verdict overruling the same; in other words, the court sustained the demurrer to the defendant’s affidavit of illegality as being insufficient in law to set aside the plaintiff’s execution, whereupon the defendant excepted.

The grounds of illegality contained in the defendant’s affidavit insisted on…

2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Jones v. Bibb Brick Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1904
  2. Rusk v. HillSupreme Court of Georgia · 1903
  3. Miedreich v. RankIndiana Court of Appeals · 1907
  4. Owens v. BoltSupreme Court of Alabama · 1928
  5. Stanton-Belment Co. v. CaseWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1900

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