Bates v. Messer
Supreme Court of Georgia
Continuance. Appeal. Practice in Superior Court. Distress Warrant. Before Judge Hutchins. Jackson Superior Court. August Term, 1885. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
The distress warrant issued in this case for rent of the premise for the year 1884, which rent was not then due but was to become due, and the affidavit to obtain the same, in addition to this fact, alleged that the tenant was seeking to remove his goods from the premises rented, and had actually a part of the crop grown thereon, and that affiant had reason to apprehend that the entire crop would be removed therefrom before her debt became due. Upon the levy of the distress, the defendant filed an affidavit to the effect that the sum distrained for was not due at the time of…
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