Johnson v. Reese
Supreme Court of Georgia
In equity, in Glasscock Superior Court. Decision by Judge Thomas, at Chambers, November 8, 1868. This was a bill for relief and injunction, filed by Asa Johnson, against Agustus C. Reese, Sheriff of Glasscock county, and others. The object of the bill was to set aside a sale of complainant’s land, made by Reese, as Sheriff under certain fi. fas.
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In equity, in Glasscock Superior Court. Decision by Judge Thomas, at Chambers, November 8, 1868. This was a bill for relief and injunction, filed by Asa Johnson, against Agustus C. Reese, Sheriff of Glasscock county, and others. The object of the bill was to set aside a sale of complainant’s land, made by Reese, as Sheriff under certain fi. fas. The bill states that by virtue of sundry executions issued from a Justice Court, against complainant, the land belonging to him, consisting of one hundred and eighty acres, was levied upon by a constable, who returned said levy to the sheriff of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benning, J.,
delivering the opinion.
Was the Court below right in sustaining the motion to dissolve the injunction? One of the grounds of the motion was, that there was no equity in the bill. If that ground was good, the answer must of course be in the affirmative.
Is it true, then, that there was no equity in the bill ?
Both the first and the second purchaser bought with notice of the sheriff’s omission to advertise the sale of the land “in three of the most public places in the county but there was no collusion between twem, or either of them, and the sheriff. The question,…
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