Jones v. Joyner
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Randolph Superior Court, motion to dissolve injunction. Decision by Judge Warren, April Term, 1850. On the 11th January, 1846, John H. Jones, then a citizen of Richland District, South Carolina, borrowed$1200 of James S. Guignard, Jr. and gave to him a bond for the payment of the same, with William Geiger, Jr. Charles Neiffer, John H. Threewitt and William H. Cassin, as sureties.
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In Equity, in Randolph Superior Court, motion to dissolve injunction. Decision by Judge Warren, April Term, 1850. On the 11th January, 1846, John H. Jones, then a citizen of Richland District, South Carolina, borrowed$1200 of James S. Guignard, Jr. and gave to him a bond for the payment of the same, with William Geiger, Jr. Charles Neiffer, John H. Threewitt and William H. Cassin, as sureties. At the same time, Jones executed a mortgage on certain negro slaves, to indemnify his sureties (who were also his sureties on other claims,) from all liability on his account. .Shortly thereafter, he…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The question to determine in this case is, whether the answers have sworn off the equity of the bill. If they have, there was no error in dissolving the injunction. After a careful reading of the bill and the answers, I am constrained to say that I have never seen all the points in a bill more directly negatived than in this instance. There is but a single particular of reliance on the part of the plaintiff in error, which has-even the shadow of plausibility, and that is his claim to have the injunction held up, that he may be credited with…
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