Morrison, Heard & Co. v. Ponder
Supreme Court of Georgia
Lien of Judgments, and for Attorney’s fees. New trial. Before Judge Hopkins. Fulton Superior Court. October Term, 1872. The facts of this case are fully stated in the opinion. The money, about which the parties were at issue, was in the hands of George W. Adair, as Receiver, appointed by the Court, and the cause was begun by a rule against him by the attorneys. He answered that lie had the money, subject to the order of the Court.
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Lien of Judgments, and for Attorney’s fees. New trial. Before Judge Hopkins. Fulton Superior Court. October Term, 1872. The facts of this case are fully stated in the opinion. The money, about which the parties were at issue, was in the hands of George W. Adair, as Receiver, appointed by the Court, and the cause was begun by a rule against him by the attorneys. He answered that lie had the money, subject to the order of the Court. Then Morrison, Heard & Company came and made the issue as to the right to take said fund. Adair was not made a party to the bill of exceptions. The parties had…
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was a motion made in the Superior Court to distribute the sum of $3,475, arising from the sale of one-half of a lot in the city of Atlanta, sold under the order and decree of a Court of equity, as the property of Ponder. By the written consent of the parties, both the facts and the law were submitted to the Judge of the Superior Court, in lieu of a jury, upon an agreed statement of the facts.
On the hearing of the case, the main question between the contesting parties was in relation to the lien of the attorneys, who had brought the money into Court, under the…
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