Shores v. Brooks
Supreme Court of Georgia
Landlord and tenant. Damages. Trespass. Advice of counsel. Evidence. Before Judge Powell. City court of Newjaan. April term, 1888. Brooks sued Shores in an action of trespass, making, in brief, the following allegations: About the 26th of October, 1887, while he was absent from home, Shores went there and broke open an out-house where seed-cotton was stored and took therefrom about 3,000 pounds oí seed-cotton and 240 bushels of cotton-seed, property of plaintiff, worth about…
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Landlord and tenant. Damages. Trespass. Advice of counsel. Evidence. Before Judge Powell. City court of Newjaan. April term, 1888. Brooks sued Shores in an action of trespass, making, in brief, the following allegations: About the 26th of October, 1887, while he was absent from home, Shores went there and broke open an out-house where seed-cotton was stored and took therefrom about 3,000 pounds oí seed-cotton and 240 bushels of cotton-seed, property of plaintiff, worth about $136. On the following Saturday, in the absence of plaintiff, Shores went to his dwelling-house and went into private…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. The evidence indicates that the contending parties were of different colors. The case presents the *474race problem in a mild form, winch problem, in all its forms, can be solved by the golden rule, “ho unto others as you would that they should do unto you.” The landlord broke open his tenant’s house, and took therefrom 8,000 pounds of cotton in the seed. This was done in the month of October; and the excuse for it was that the tenant had not paid the charges to which the cotton was subject, and would not sell the cotton nor carry it to market as soon as the landlord…
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