Sayre v. Flournoy
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity. Bill and demurrer. From Washington Superior Court. Tried before Judge Holt. September Term, 1847. The plaintiffs in error filed their bill on the equity side of the Court below, alleging that they as former partners using the style of William H. Sayre and company, obtained judgment in Hancock Inferior court, February, 1829, against said Nathaniel A. Adams, for $1,107 70¿-, and $170 73 interest and costs; that execution was issued and several returns of nulla bona…
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In Equity. Bill and demurrer. From Washington Superior Court. Tried before Judge Holt. September Term, 1847. The plaintiffs in error filed their bill on the equity side of the Court below, alleging that they as former partners using the style of William H. Sayre and company, obtained judgment in Hancock Inferior court, February, 1829, against said Nathaniel A. Adams, for $1,107 70¿-, and $170 73 interest and costs; that execution was issued and several returns of nulla bona had thereon, and that the same was still due, no part thereof having been paid thereon. The bill further alleged, that…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Warner, J.,
delivering the opinion.
The object of the complainants’ bill as disclosed by the record before us is, to have their debt satisfied out of the fund now in the hands of the administrator of Robert Willis Flournoy, deceased. The complainants are judgment creditors of Nathaniel A. Adams, who intermarried with Mary M. Flournoy, the sister of Robert Willis Flournoy. It appears from the record that Adams is insolvent, and that the complainants have exhausted their legal remedies against him without having been able to collect their demand. It also appears, that Mary M. Adams,…
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