Thomas v. Brinsfield
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity. In Stewart Superior Court. Tried before Judge Alexander, April Term, 1849. Polly Thomas filed her bill in Stewart Superior Court, against Thomas Brinsfield', charging that, in the year 1829, in the State of North Carolina, being anxious to remove from that State, and having no friend to whom she could apply, complainant was induced to make application to Thomas Brinsfield, who then agreed and undertook to remove complainant and her infant daughter, together with…
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In Equity. In Stewart Superior Court. Tried before Judge Alexander, April Term, 1849. Polly Thomas filed her bill in Stewart Superior Court, against Thomas Brinsfield', charging that, in the year 1829, in the State of North Carolina, being anxious to remove from that State, and having no friend to whom she could apply, complainant was induced to make application to Thomas Brinsfield, who then agreed and undertook to remove complainant and her infant daughter, together with the property of which she was possessed, consisting of a horse and four negroes, to the State of Georgia, and to afford…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] Courts of Equity are not strictly within the Statutes of Limitation. Yet length of time, in analogy to the Statutes of Limitation, is as complete a bar in Equity aAn^w^^^feparty’s right or demand is barred by the laws|j(^hi^B^^iJ3^ipSfet relieved from the operation of the laws, 1m gcing into Equitvffio assert it. This would make the Courts the wise and salutary operation of the StlpHes. The effect w*uld be, in all cases over which Equity coul<mal»ijj^^¡S3E3l'(tdírepeal the Statutes of Limitation. There ESjeHiowever,§ogja? subjects of Equity…
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