Legal Opinion

Hobbs v. Davis

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 15, 1860PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Case, in Bryan Superior Court. Tried before Judge Fleming, December Term, 1858. The facts are embodied in the opinion of the Court.

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

Lumpkin, J.,

delivering the opinion.

This was an action brought in Bryan Superior Court, by Sarah Davis, against John Hobbs, to recover damages of the defendant for, and on account of his having withdrawn from the possession of the plaintiff, in the month of May, 1858, a negro woman which he had hired to her at the beginning of that year, to make a crop that year. The jury assessed the plaintiff’s damages at one hundred and twenty-five dollars, with costs.

No motion having been made for a new trial, of course there can be no exception upon which error can be assigned in this Court,…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Jones v. GeorgeTexas Supreme Court · 1884
  2. Odom v. BushSupreme Court of Georgia · 1906
  3. Hayes v. CooleyNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1904
  4. Den Bleyker v. GastonMichigan Supreme Court · 1893
  5. Security Store & Manufacturing Co. v. American Railways Express Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1932

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