D. Goode & Son v. Rawlins
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice. Mortgage sales. Principal and Agent. Charge of the Court. Mistake at sheriff’s sale. Before Judge Alexander. Pulaski Superior Court. April Term, 1871. This case is reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, Judge.
This was a rule against the sheriff to pay money over to the plaintiffs, under the following circumstances: D. Goode & Son were judgment creditors of one Merritt. The sheriff, at the instance of other judgment creditors, had levied on defendant’s one half interest in a warehouse, on which one Bozeman held a mortgage for some $4,000 00. On the day of sale, the plaintiffs in fi. fa. levied the mortgages, and Anderson, the son-in-law of the mortgagor, representing his father-in-law, who was in Montana, agreed that the entire fee in the premises might be sold, the mortgagee…
2Cited by2 opinions
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- Thornton v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1916