Davis v. Moody
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Crawford Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers, September Term, 1853. This bill was filed by William Moody and his wife, against Lewis Davis, for “discovery, relief and account”. The bill charges that previous to the inter-marriage of complainants in 1848, unfortunate difficulties, disagreements and disputes had arisen between Lewis Davis, the defendant, (and the father of Mrs. Moody^ one of the complainants,) one Baldwin M. Eluker and Mrs. Moody, then Miss…
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In Equity, in Crawford Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers, September Term, 1853. This bill was filed by William Moody and his wife, against Lewis Davis, for “discovery, relief and account”. The bill charges that previous to the inter-marriage of complainants in 1848, unfortunate difficulties, disagreements and disputes had arisen between Lewis Davis, the defendant, (and the father of Mrs. Moody^ one of the complainants,) one Baldwin M. Eluker and Mrs. Moody, then Miss Davis, concerning grievous injuries and wrongs inflicted by the said Eluker, upon Mrs. Moody, one of the complainants;…
1Opinion of the Court
*181 By the Court.
Starnes, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] So far as the notes are concerned, which were turned over by Baldwin M. Fluker to defendant, we think the Court committed no error in charging, “ that if the Jury were satisfied, from the evidence, that Flukor, at the time of making the contract, and as a part of the contract itself, did turn over the negro and notes to Davis, in trust, for the benefit of his daughter Frances, and that Davis so received, as part of the contract, the property into his hands, with the agreement to carry oxit this trust, notwithstanding the agreement to…
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