Legal Opinion

Shuman v. Smith

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 8, 1897PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Action for damages. Before Judge Gamble. Bullocb -•superior court. April term, 1896.

1Opinion of the Court

Simmons, Chief Justice.

1. Smith sued Shuman for damages for evicting him from a certain tract of land which he claims to have rented from Shuman, before the term of rental had expired. On the trial in the court below, Shuman demurred to the declara*416tion on various grounds which, it is unnecessary to mention here. The court overruled the demurrer. Shuman lost the case, and made a motion for a new trial, one of the grounds of this motion being that the court erred in overruling the demurrer. The case was tried April 30, 1896, and the bill of exceptions certified August 1, 1896. Ho exceptions…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Knowles v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1879

3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Waldrop v. WolffSupreme Court of Georgia · 1902
  2. Heery v. BurkhalterSupreme Court of Georgia · 1901
  3. Levy, Brother & Co. v. AllenCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1936
  4. Mitsakos v. MorrillMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
  5. Southern Railway Co. v. CourseySupreme Court of Georgia · 1902

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