West v. Rouse
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity in Sumter Superior Court. Decision on Demur-. rer, and on motion to dissolve Injunction, at, August. Term, 1853, by Judge Perkins. James P. West and Josiah Scrutchins bought of John R. Rouse and John J. Hodges, two lots of land in Sumter county— Nos. 118 and 101, of 3d District, for the sum of $4,000. Each, of tbe purchasers paid 11,000 cash; and ’gave their sevefaT notes, one to Hodges and tlio other to Rouse, for $1,000 each.
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In Equity in Sumter Superior Court. Decision on Demur-. rer, and on motion to dissolve Injunction, at, August. Term, 1853, by Judge Perkins. James P. West and Josiah Scrutchins bought of John R. Rouse and John J. Hodges, two lots of land in Sumter county— Nos. 118 and 101, of 3d District, for the sum of $4,000. Each, of tbe purchasers paid 11,000 cash; and ’gave their sevefaT notes, one to Hodges and tlio other to Rouse, for $1,000 each. Ilodges and Rouse executed warranty deeds to the purchasers. West and the Executors of Scrutchins filed their bill against Rouse and Hodges, alleging the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Starnes, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] We are not surprised that the bill in this case should have been dismissed by the Court below. The allegations necessary to give a Court of Equity jurisdiction, are few, and unmarked with very striking features. Still, we think there is enough in this bill to require ¡that it should be answered.
It is alleged that “ Rouse and Hodges fraudulently palmed off, and imposed upon complainant West, what they, the defendants had reason to believe, was a forged title”, &c.
Here the charge is not very technical, nor is it positively affirmed that the…
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