Shuford v. Alexander
Supreme Court of Georgia
Pleadings. Justice Courts. Infants. Minors. Contracts. Tender. Before Judge Branham. Walker Superior Court. February Term, 1884. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
The' plaintiff, as the next friend of his minor son, sued the defendant in a justice’s court for fraudulently palming off upon him certain worthless notes in a horse swap.* In the trial of the case before the justice, the defendant appears to have been guilty of much improper conduct to the court, and to liave carried off one of the jury, who was sick, to his shop and furnished him with wine to drink; in short, to adopt the statement in the record, be seems to have “ run the court,” over the protest of the presiding justice, and despite his efforts to prevent it. Of course, he…
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