Singer Sewing Machine Co. v. Crawford

1. The effect of the amendment to the magistrate’s answer to the petition for certiorari was to set forth that the magistrate who tried the case held that the burden of proof was upon the claimant. The superior court, in overruling the second exception taken to the magistrate’s answer, in effect held such to he the case.

2. In the trial of a claim case, where it was in no wise made to appear in whose poss'ession the property levied upon was found, the burden of proof was upon the plaintiff in fi. fa. Civil Code (1910), § 5170; Knowles v. Jourdan, 66 Ga. 300 (1); Thompson v. American &c. Co.,…