Ætna Insurance v. Sparks
Supreme Court of Georgia
Pleadings. Practice in the Superior Court. Amendment. Continuance. New trial. Insurance. Before Judge Hillyer. Fulton Superior Court. October Term, 1877. At the trial of this case, Mrs. Mary Stanton (who became Mrs. Mary Sparks by a second marriage) was plaintiff, and the Insurance Company defendant.
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Pleadings. Practice in the Superior Court. Amendment. Continuance. New trial. Insurance. Before Judge Hillyer. Fulton Superior Court. October Term, 1877. At the trial of this case, Mrs. Mary Stanton (who became Mrs. Mary Sparks by a second marriage) was plaintiff, and the Insurance Company defendant. The record contains an apparently dual proceeding, or else two cases; there is a regular petition in Fulton superior court, with process, plea, etc., in the usual form ; this was in favor of Mrs. Stanton for the use of Bridget Ennis, but was after-wards ameuded by striking the usee and leaving it…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Justice.
1. This case arose from a fire as far back as 1866. There seems at one time to have been a suit by Bridget Ennis for this or some other loss in the county court, and counsel dispute in respect to the question, whether or not that is this original case, and whether it has become changed by some sort of amendment into the case before us, or whether this is a new case different from that ? One thing can be gathered with certainty from this confused record, and that is, that the papers were lost at one time and copies thereof have been established under the Code, section 3980 ;…
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