Cross v. Coffin-Fletcher Packing Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action on bond. Before Judge Calhoun. City court of Atlanta. January 14, 1905. The Ooffin-Fletcher Packing Company brought suit against Cross, Brown, and the Fidelity and Deposit Company, on an attachment bond.
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Action on bond. Before Judge Calhoun. City court of Atlanta. January 14, 1905. The Ooffin-Fletcher Packing Company brought suit against Cross, Brown, and the Fidelity and Deposit Company, on an attachment bond. The petition alleged, that the attachment case had been finally decided in favor of the Coffin-Fletcher Packing Company, and that hy reason of the attachment it had sustained damages as follows: $200, attorney’s fees; $77.15, for releasing garnishments and collecting accounts due; $86.20, expenses and damages caused to goods by being held in stock by reason of the attachment and levy;…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
1. While the Civil Code, § 5484, provides that ordi*819nary motions for new trials must be made during the term at which the trial was had, and that when the term continues longer than thirty days from the trial, “the application shall be.filed within thirty days from the trial, together with a brief of the evidence,” it is settled by numerous decisions, which need not be cited, that the judge may, by order passed when the motion for new trial is made, extend the time for filing the brief of evidence to any day in the future before the motion is finally heard and determined. The question raised…
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