Neal-Millard Co. v. Trustees of Chatham Academy
Supreme Court of Georgia
Foreclosure of lien. Before Judge Cann. Chatham superior court. February 10, 1904. Neal-Millard Company brought an action against the Stewart-Contracting Company and the Trustees of Chátham Academy, to-enforce a materialman’s lien.
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Foreclosure of lien. Before Judge Cann. Chatham superior court. February 10, 1904. Neal-Millard Company brought an action against the Stewart-Contracting Company and the Trustees of Chátham Academy, to-enforce a materialman’s lien. The original petition averred, that-the .Trustees of Chatham Academy, naming them, were indebted to the plaintiff in a stated amount, as by a bill of particulars attached to the petition, for material furnished by the plaintiff to the Stewart Contracting Company, for the erection and construction of “that certain building or institution known as Chatham Academy, in…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, P. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The act establishing Chatham Academy was passed February 1, 1788. Watkins’ Dig. 372. That act provides: “That an academy or seminary of learning be erected in the said county [of Chatham], at *211such place as the majority of the trustees hereinafter appointed shall think fit, and that the said trustees or a majority of them shall proceed to transact the business of the said academy.” The sixth and seventh sections of the act are as follows: “VI. And whereas, There may be in the said county of Chatham lands unlocated and not granted, Be it further enacted,…
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