Johnson v. Franklin & Whitnky

Warner, Chief Justice.

This case came before the court below on a certiorari from a justice court. It appears from the record that the case tried in the justice court was a claim case, and that the justice decided it in favor of the claimant. On the hearing of the certiorari in the superior court, the court sustained it, and reversed the judgment of the justice. Whereupon the claimant and defendant in certiorari excepted.

It appears from the evidence, that on the 19th of October, 1878, the fi. fa. was levied on 700 pounds of seed cotton, and 100 bushels of corn, as the property of Johnson, the…