Townsend & Bros. v. Davis
Supreme Court of Georgia
The defendant in error had sued out an attachment against John B. Davis, predicated upon a note due the Central Bank of Georgia, of which the said John B. Davis was maker, and the defendant in error the last endorser ; the said John B. Davis having moved out of the State, and the defendant in error having been sued as said last endorser, and judgment rendered against him.
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The defendant in error had sued out an attachment against John B. Davis, predicated upon a note due the Central Bank of Georgia, of which the said John B. Davis was maker, and the defendant in error the last endorser ; the said John B. Davis having moved out of the State, and the defendant in error having been sued as said last endorser, and judgment rendered against him. The case founded upon this attachmant came on to be tried on the appeal before Judge Floyd, in the Superior Court of Houston County, at April Term, 1846, when counsel for the plaintiffs in error, Townsend and Brothers, being…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
Nisbet, Judge.
Upon the trial of this attachment below, Messrs, Hammond and Arnold, who were counsel for Townsend and Brothers, being also attaching creditors of John B. Davis, were permitted to appear as amici curia in defence of John B. Davis. As friends of the court, they took a number of *496exceptions to the attachment first sued out by the defendant in error, James M. Davis. These exceplions were overruled. Whereupon Townsend and Brothers, designating themselves as amici cuña, brought this writ of error. The motion now is, by counsel for defendant in error, to dismiss the writ…
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