Barefield v. Bryan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari, in Randolph Superior Court. Decided by Judge Warren, April Term, 1850. 1/aac Bryan commenced suit in the Inferior Court of Randolph County, against Frederick Barefield and others, as administrators of L: Barefield.
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Certiorari, in Randolph Superior Court. Decided by Judge Warren, April Term, 1850. 1/aac Bryan commenced suit in the Inferior Court of Randolph County, against Frederick Barefield and others, as administrators of L: Barefield. At the trial term, on motion of defendants, the cause was continued; after the continuance, plaintiffs atneys wrote out a confession of judgment to the defendants for costs, with liberty of appeal; which confession, defendants refused to accept, and the Court refused to allow, upon the ground that the case had been continued for the term. By direction of plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering tlie opinion.
Suit having been instituted in the Inferior Court of Randolph County, by Isaac Bryan against the Barefields, on a judgment from Hancock County, the defendants at the trial term, moved for a continuance, on account of the absence of material testimony; which was allowed by the Court The plaintiff then tendered to the defendants a confession of judgment for costs, with liberty of appeal, which they refused to accept, and which the Court would not sanction. The confession was, nevertheless, entered on the minutes of the Court by the Clerk, by…
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