Hargraves v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Muscogee Superior Court, November Term, 1848. Felix Lewis filed Ms bill, returnable to the Superior Court of Muscogee County, alleging that many years previously, he had borrowed $3,000 of George W. Hargraves, at the usurious rate of 14-J per cent, per year; that after several annual renewals at the same per cent, being about to move to Mississippi, at the request of Hargraves he procured his father and brother, who had been his sureties, to make their joint…
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In Equity, in Muscogee Superior Court, November Term, 1848. Felix Lewis filed Ms bill, returnable to the Superior Court of Muscogee County, alleging that many years previously, he had borrowed $3,000 of George W. Hargraves, at the usurious rate of 14-J per cent, per year; that after several annual renewals at the same per cent, being about to move to Mississippi, at the request of Hargraves he procured his father and brother, who had been his sureties, to make their joint note, in renewal of his, and procured thereon the indorsement of William L. Wynn, but charged that complainant was the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The final order passed by the Circuit Judge, in the original bill, filed by Lewis against Hargraves and Wynn, came before this Court for review, and was affirmed. 3 Kelly, 162. A preliminary motion is made in this case, to dismiss the writ of error, upon the ground that it is apparent upon the record, that the Supreme Court has, in the previous case, decided upon the merits of the decree now sought to be reviewed, and it will not now entertain a writ of error, founded on a bill to review that decree. We refuse that motion. The error…
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