Legal Opinion

Girtman v. Stanford

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 15, 1881PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Distress Warrant. Landlord and Tenant. Practice in Superior Court. Judgments. Before Judge Hood. Decatur Superior Court. May Term, 188x. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Speer, Justice.

A distress warrant was issued in favor of defendant in error against plaintiff in error for four bales of low middling cotton, alleged to be worth one hundred and eighty dollars. To this warrant plaintiff in error filed a counter-affidavit. On the trial, defendant in error demurred to the counter-affidavit, which demurrer the court sustained, and dismissed the affidavit.

*179Defendant in error then moved to enter up judgment against plaintiff in error without evidence, or without submitting the same to a jury, to which plaintiff in error objected. The objection was overruled, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Habersham v. Eppinger & RussellSupreme Court of Georgia · 1878

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Hawkins v. CollierSupreme Court of Georgia · 1897
  2. Griggs v. WillbanksSupreme Court of Georgia · 1895
  3. Murphey v. McGoughSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898
  4. Kennedy v. MillerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1934
  5. Withers v. Hopkins Place Savings BankSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898

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