Jackson v. Sparks
Supreme Court of Georgia
Possessory "Warrant. Certiorari. Decided by Judge Vason. Sumter Superior Court. April Term, 186.7. The facts of this case were agreed to by attorneys for plaintiff and'defendant. The warrant was in favor of E. W. Jackson vs. M. E. Sparks, for a mule worth one hundred and fifty dollars, and was sued out and tried before James A. Ansley, Judge of the County-Court of Sumter County.
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Possessory "Warrant. Certiorari. Decided by Judge Vason. Sumter Superior Court. April Term, 186.7. The facts of this case were agreed to by attorneys for plaintiff and'defendant. The warrant was in favor of E. W. Jackson vs. M. E. Sparks, for a mule worth one hundred and fifty dollars, and was sued out and tried before James A. Ansley, Judge of the County-Court of Sumter County. A negro named Marion, seven or eight days before the warrant issued, stole and carried away from one Hinton, another mule and traded it to Jackson, representing it as his own, for themule in controversy. Hinton…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, C. J.
1. Upon the trial of a possessory warrant, the Judge or Justice shall hear evidence as to the question of possession in a surpmary way, without investigating the title to the property. Code, Sec. 3935. The object of the Statute was to quiet the possession of personal property, and not to try the title thereto. Under our laws a different tribunal has jurisdiction of questions x-elating to title.
2. The plaintiff voluntarily parted with the possession of the mule in controversy, and intended thereby to vest the title in the party froixi whom defendant purchased. Can this innocent purchasex’, by…
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