Forlaw v. Augusta Naval Stores Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Hammond. Bichmond superior court. July 21, 1905. The Augusta Naval Stores Company, a partnership composed of Hogan and Heath, filed an equitable petition against D. J. Forlaw, Frank D. Christie, the Woodward Lumber Company, and the Ellis-Young Company, alleging in substance as follows: The petitioners formed a partnership for the purpose of conducting a .turpentine business.
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Hammond. Bichmond superior court. July 21, 1905. The Augusta Naval Stores Company, a partnership composed of Hogan and Heath, filed an equitable petition against D. J. Forlaw, Frank D. Christie, the Woodward Lumber Company, and the Ellis-Young Company, alleging in substance as follows: The petitioners formed a partnership for the purpose of conducting a .turpentine business. For this purpose they acquired leases to about 3,713 acres of land in the county of Bichmond, and in order to obtain such leases they had to pay the owners of the properties partly in cash…
1Opinion of the CourtBeoe, J.
(After stating the facts.) 1. If the three minor children of the plaintiff in error, Forlaw, had resided permanently *269under a roof which he had provided and under which he himself lodged when on his visits to them, we might have been able to hold, as a matter of law that even-though the greater part, or practically all, of his time was passed at other places in other counties or in other States, he had a family. ■ But that is not the case presented by the record in the cause arising out of the issue made by the plea to the jurisdiction. “A family is defined as a collective body of persons who…
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