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Executors of Rowell v. & Administrator of Neves

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 15, 1857No. 18PublishedCited by 1 opinion

In Equity, in Baker Superior Court, Decision by Judge Perkins, May Term, 1855. This case was pending in the Superior Court of Baker county, and came up for trial on a demurrer filed at May Term, 1855, of that Court.

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In Equity, in Baker Superior Court, Decision by Judge Perkins, May Term, 1855. This case was pending in the Superior Court of Baker county, and came up for trial on a demurrer filed at May Term, 1855, of that Court. It not being convenient to hear argument at that term of the Court, the presiding Judge, by consent of counsel and request of both parties, ordered “the Clerk of said Court to transmit to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Dougherty county, all the papers in the cause, and that said demurrer be argued at the next ensuing session of the Superior Court of Dougherty county.” In…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

Lumpkin, J.

delivering the opinion.

From which county should the record in this case have been transmitted, Dougherty or Baker?

The bill originated and was pending in Baker county. By the consent and for the convenience of counsel, the demurrer was argued and decided in Dougherty. The papers in the case- having been transferred by the Clerk of Baker, under an ordei of the Court after judgment upon the demurrer was. *127rendered; they were directed to be re-transferred by the Clerk of Dougherty, to the office to which they belonged, with instructions to enter the interlocutory decree in…

2Cited by1 opinion

  1. Moore v. City of WinderCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1912

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