Morris v. Ogle
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice in the Superior Court. Mechanic’s lien. Lost papers. Presumptions. Before Judge Knight. Cobb Superior Court. November Term, 1875. Reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
1. The enforcement of a mechanic’s lien upon a gin-house, mill and the machinery therein, for labor and material furnished in building and repairing the gin-house and mill, was *593resisted by a counter-affidavit, the proceeding itself being an execution founded, not upon a suit, but upon affidavits made by the creditors as mechanics. In other words, it was a summary foreclosure of mechanic’s lien under the act of 1869, and the Code of 1868, section 1969. After the plaintiffs had submitted a part of their evidence, it was discovered that most of the papers pertaining to this case…
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