Pierce v. Jones
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Polk Superior Court. Decision by Judge Hammond, at May Term, 1857. John A. Jones filed his bill in Equity against Edward D. Chisolm, James Pierce and Robert F. Morrison. The bill alleges that on the 31st January, 1851, complainant purchased from Manley W. Ford, since dead, lot of land No. 718, in the 18th district and 3d section of Polk county, of the value of $1000, and took Ford’s deed for the same.
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In Equity, in Polk Superior Court. Decision by Judge Hammond, at May Term, 1857. John A. Jones filed his bill in Equity against Edward D. Chisolm, James Pierce and Robert F. Morrison. The bill alleges that on the 31st January, 1851, complainant purchased from Manley W. Ford, since dead, lot of land No. 718, in the 18th district and 3d section of Polk county, of the value of $1000, and took Ford’s deed for the same. At the time of said purchase, Ford turned over to complainant a deed of said lot from James A. Murray, purporting to be the drawer of said lot, to Ford, dated 10th of December,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Benning, J.
delivering the opinion.
Was there any equity in the bill ?
The bill says that Chisolm claimed the land under Morrison; that Morrison had no title to it; that, nevertheless, in order to enable them, or one of them, to recover the land from Jones, the complainant, they had procured one Pierce,.. to administer on the estate of one Murray, whom they took to be the Murray who was the drawer of the land, and'to-' bring an action, as such administrator, against Jones, to recover the land for their benefit.
The bill also states, that which makes it doubtful, whether ■this…
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