Hendrick v. Davis
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assumpsit, from Randolph county. Tried before Judge Kiddoo, at November Term, 1858. This was an action by Richard Davis, Sheriff, for the use of Lodwick Lard, against John Hendrick, to recover eight hundred and ten dollars, being the difference between a first sale of Lard’s property made by the Sheriff, and bid off by Hendrick, and a second sale thereof, Hendrick failing and refusing to comply with his purchase, and said property resold at his risk.
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Assumpsit, from Randolph county. Tried before Judge Kiddoo, at November Term, 1858. This was an action by Richard Davis, Sheriff, for the use of Lodwick Lard, against John Hendrick, to recover eight hundred and ten dollars, being the difference between a first sale of Lard’s property made by the Sheriff, and bid off by Hendrick, and a second sale thereof, Hendrick failing and refusing to comply with his purchase, and said property resold at his risk. Under a fi. fa., at the suit of E. H. Martin vs. Lodwick Lard and Masten D. Hendrick, makers, and Thomas L. Douglass and William T. Callier,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
McDonald J.
delivering the opinion..
The defendant in the Court below, who is the plaintiff in error here, was sued by the Sheriff, for the use of Lodwick *170E. Lard, to recover the difference between the price at which the defendant had bid off certain property at Sheriff’s sale, he having refused to comply with the terms of sale when required to do so, and the price at which the property was afterwards sold. The suit was brought under the Act of 1831. Cobb, 513.
[1.] On the trial, the plaintiff in the Court below introduced the Deputy Sheriff as a witness. The counsel for defendant…
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