Reese v. Wyman
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Troup Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hill, November Term, 1850. This was a bill in Equity, filed by the plaintiff in error against, the defendants.
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In Equity, in Troup Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hill, November Term, 1850. This was a bill in Equity, filed by the plaintiff in error against, the defendants. The bill alleged, that the defendants, on the 29th of December, 1837, were united and associated as co-partners, under the name and style of the “ West Point Company,” and as such were the owners of a town, laid off into lots and streets by them, on the Chattahoochee river, in the County of Troup, known and called West Point; that on the 28th of September, 1837, they advertised said lots for sale, stating in the notice, that “It…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
Numerous requests to charge were made by the counsel for the plaintiff in error in this case, which the presiding Judge declined to give, and the charge which he did give, and his various refusals to charge as requested, are excepted to. That part of the charge copied into the Reporter’s brief, contains what the Court did rule, and covers' all the points really made in the case. If the Court was right in this instruction, he was right in not instructing as requested. Our opinion is, that the law applicable to the case, and growing out of it, was…
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