Loftin v. Carroll County Board of Education

Bell, Presiding Justice.

1. Where a petition in a superior court to es-

tablish a copy of a deéd claimed to have been lost alleged only that the debtor resided in the county in which the suit was filed, that he had executed to the plaintiff a certain deed, a true copy of which was attached to the petition, and that the deed had been lost, and in which petition the only prayer was that “the clerk of this court issue a rule nisi calling upon [the defendant] to show cause, if any he has, why the copy deed aforesaid should not be established in lieu of said lost original,” such petition was a mere…