Savannah, Florida & Western Rwy. Co. v. Atkinson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Sweat. Camden superior court. March term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
1, 2. The act approved October 24th, 1887, requires that “ all civil suits begun in a superior court of this State, founded on a legal or equitable cause of action, for a legal or equitable remedy or both, shall be commenced by a petition addressed to said court,” and that “the form of process to the petition referred to above shall be that at present required in actions at law.” (Acts 1887, p. 64.) A year after the adoption of this act, a bill was filed in the old form of equity pleading, addressed to the judge of the superior court by name, and also to the superior court of…
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