Legal Opinion

Barker v. Blount

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 15, 1879PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Evidence. Practice in the Superior Court. Charge of Court. New trial. Before Judge Bartlett. Pike Superior Court. April Adjourned Term, 187S. A fi. fa. in favor of Barker against G. B. M. Blount was levied on certain land, part of which was claimed by G. H. Blount. On the trial, the following evidence was introduced : 1. G. B. M. Blount testified as follows: I was the administrator on the estate of Thomas Barker, father of plaintiff.

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Evidence. Practice in the Superior Court. Charge of Court. New trial. Before Judge Bartlett. Pike Superior Court. April Adjourned Term, 187S. A fi. fa. in favor of Barker against G. B. M. Blount was levied on certain land, part of which was claimed by G. H. Blount. On the trial, the following evidence was introduced : 1. G. B. M. Blount testified as follows: I was the administrator on the estate of Thomas Barker, father of plaintiff. Plaintiff sued me as such, I suppose, as I never owed him anything on any other account. I owned the land in dispute prior to 1869. I then gave it to claimant.…

1Opinion of the Court

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was a claim case, on the trial of which, the jury, under the charge of the court, found the property not subject to the fi. fa. levied thereon. A motion was made for a new trial on the several grounds therein set forth, which was overruled, and the plaintiff excepted.

It appears from the evidence in the record, that the plaintiff’s judgment on which the fi. fa. levied on the property was issued, bears date the 19th of January, 1876, and that the claimant was the son of the defendant in fi. fa., who, the 23d day of November, 1869, made a voluntary deed of conveyance…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Farrow v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1873

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Chatterton v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1965
  2. Grant v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1896
  3. Weeks v. Hosch Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1909
  4. Blount v. FaulkSupreme Court of Georgia · 1966

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