Cameron v. Justices of the Inferior Court
Supreme Court of Georgia
Co-Executors and Administrators. This was an action of debt upon the administration-bond of Philip H. Mantz and John A. Cameron, administrators of James Leverich, deceased, and others, their securities, alleging a joint devastavit by both of the administrators, and was brought by the defendants in error, for the use of Luther Roll, in the Superior court of the county of Richmond, and came up for trial before Judge Gamble, at the January Term, 1846. The defendants in error…
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Co-Executors and Administrators. This was an action of debt upon the administration-bond of Philip H. Mantz and John A. Cameron, administrators of James Leverich, deceased, and others, their securities, alleging a joint devastavit by both of the administrators, and was brought by the defendants in error, for the use of Luther Roll, in the Superior court of the county of Richmond, and came up for trial before Judge Gamble, at the January Term, 1846. The defendants in error set forth as their cause of action, two several judgments, one of which had been recovered against Mantz alone, and the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
This action was instituted, upon an administrator’s bond, against Philip Mantz and John A. Cameron, administrators of James Leverich deceased, and their securities, alleging a joint devastavit by the administrators. To prove such joint devastavit, a judgment was offered in evidence, and admitted in the court below, obtained against Mantz alone, as the administrator of Leverich, together with an execution which issued thereon, and a return of nulla bona, by the sheriff. The error assigned is, that the court below held this judgment against Mantz alone was evidence to authorize a…
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