Jones v. Lellyett & Smith
Supreme Court of Georgia
Bankruptcy. Lien of Judgments. Decided by Judge Parrott. Catoosa county. Chambers. April, 1869. Lellyett & Smith, bad their j/L fa. against Wooten & Gordon, levied on certain land as the property of Wooten, and Jones claimed the land. The parties agreed that Judge Parrott should hear the cause at Chambers, and there decide all questions of law and fact.
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Bankruptcy. Lien of Judgments. Decided by Judge Parrott. Catoosa county. Chambers. April, 1869. Lellyett & Smith, bad their j/L fa. against Wooten & Gordon, levied on certain land as the property of Wooten, and Jones claimed the land. The parties agreed that Judge Parrott should hear the cause at Chambers, and there decide all questions of law and fact. It was admitted that Wooten had owned the land since the rendition of the judgment; that Wooten had been regularly discharged as a bankrupt, under the Bankrupt Act of Congress, of the 2nd of March, 1867; that said judgment was a valid lien on…
1Opinion of the CourtWarner, J.
This was a claim case tried in the Court below, upon an agreed statement of facts. The plaintiffs levied an execution upon a tract of land as the property of Wooten, one of the defendants therein, to satisfy their judgment lien against the same. The land was claimed by Jones, who had purchased the land from Wooten after the date of the judgment. The precise agreement of facts, as stated in the record, is as follows: “That Wooten, one of the defendants in fi. fa., and who owned the property in dispute since the rendition of this judgment, has been regularly discharged under the Bankrupt Act of…
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