Mothershead v. DeGive
Supreme Court of Georgia
Landlord and tenant. Counter-affidavit. Amendment. Practice in superior court. Continuance. Before .Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton superior court. March term, 1888. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
This was a proceeding under sections 4077, 4078 of 'the code, to remove a tenant from certain land, and put the owners in possession thereof. The affidavit upon which the warrant was founded, and the warrant itself, alleged that the tenant was a tenant 'at sufferance, and was holding over after demand made for possession. They also set forth that the premises were worth for rent a certain sum for a period reaching back more *195than four years, and averred refusal to pay the same. A counter-affidavit was filed by the tenant, which merely denied that the rent claimed was…
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