Butler, Stevens & Co. v. Georgia & Alabama Railway

1. The Georgia and Alabama Railway brought a petition in the nature of a bill of interpleader against the Bank of Unadillá, Butler, Stevens & Company, and others, for the purpose of having the title to certain bales of cotton determined. The case was referred to an auditor. Butler, Stevens & Company filed exceptions, both of law and fact, to the auditor’s report,* and the judge overruled all of the exceptions. Error is assigned upon this ruling, so far as it relates to eight exceptions, four classified as exceptions of law and four as exceptions of fact. Three of the exceptions of fact…