Johnson v. Reeves
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint — certiorari. Before Judge Lumpkin. Fulton superior court. April 19, 1900.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
J. D. Reeves brought suit in a justice’s court against J. S. Johnson, upon an account amounting to $43.38, for rent of a house and lot. The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted, and further pleaded that he was not the tenant of J. D. Reeves, but held the property under the sheriff, who had seized the property by virtue of an attachment against Reeves. He also set up in his answer that, if he was the tenant of Reeves during the time alleged, the cause is res ad judicata, for that in January,'1897, the defendant brought suit, in the city court of Atlanta, against J. D. Reeves, to recover…
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