Legal Opinion
Hopkins v. Burch
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 15, 1847No. 36PublishedCited by 4 opinions
This was a claim case. Tried before Judge Warren. In Macon Superior Court. At the April adjourned'Term, 1847.
1Opinion of the Court
*224 By the Court.
Nisbet, J.,
delivering the opinion.
The claimant introduced in evidence a deed for the land in question, from the sheriff, being a purchaser at sheriff’s sale. The levy was made by a constable, and the magistrate’sfi.fa. was tendered in evidence by the claimant as part of his title. It was demurred to upon the ground that it had not the constable’s official entry of “ no personal property to be found,” and rejected. The claimant then brought the constable into court who made the levy, and proposed that he should amend his entries, and make the required entry “ nunc pro tunc,”…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Thatcher v. MillerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1814
3Cited by4 opinions
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