Lester v. Mathews
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Decrees. Jurisdiction. Parties. Before Judge Pottle. Oglethorpe Superior Court. October Adjourned Term, 1876. Reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Judge.
This is a bill filed to reform a decree, and for relief against the administrators of an estate. The case was here before on a suit at common law, and we then held that Oglethorpe superior court had no jurisdiction of the case, for reasons then given. See 56 Ga., 655.
The defendant in error, Mathews, then brought his bill on the chancery side of the court. Lester, ILunnicutt and others, defendants, demurred; the demurrer ~was overruled, and the question is, was the demurrer properly overruled ?
The bill alleges that on an issue of deroismit ml non, in Oglethorpe superior court, a…
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