Clark v. Beall
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity jurisdiction, etc. Decided by Judge James M. Clark. Dougherty county. Chambers. April, 1869. Jerry Beall, of Baldwin county, Georgia, sued Eugenia C. Beall, Julia A. McLaren, Peter McLaren, and Mathew L. Bryan, in Dougherty Superior Court, on two promissory notes made by them to him, for $20,000 00 each, each dated the 23d of January, 1866, and due on the 1st of January, 1867 and 1868, respectively.
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Equity jurisdiction, etc. Decided by Judge James M. Clark. Dougherty county. Chambers. April, 1869. Jerry Beall, of Baldwin county, Georgia, sued Eugenia C. Beall, Julia A. McLaren, Peter McLaren, and Mathew L. Bryan, in Dougherty Superior Court, on two promissory notes made by them to him, for $20,000 00 each, each dated the 23d of January, 1866, and due on the 1st of January, 1867 and 1868, respectively. These defendants, pending this action, filed against Jerry Beall, in Dougherty county, a bill to enjoin this suit, and for account of certain trust funds, etc. The injunction was granted.…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCay, J.
This bill was filed by the complainants, in Dougherty county, to enjoin a suit pending at law in that county against them, in favor of Jerry Beall, who resides in Baldwin county. The bill also prayed certain other relief, as will appear from the following statement of its charges and objects :
The bill charges that the notes on which the suit is founded were given by complainants to the defendant for a plantation in Dougherty county, some time in 1866; that they amounted altogether to $60,000 00; that they had subsequently sold the plantation to one Woodward, taken his notes and amortgage for…
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