Moses v. Watson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Jurisdiction. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge CRAWFORD. Muscogee Superior Court.. November Term, 1879. Mrs. Watson filed her bill, alleging, in brief, as set out. in the first head-note and the decision. Moses pleaded to-the jurisdiction, alleging that he was a resident of Fulton county, while the bill was filed in Muscogee. The plea was overruled.
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Equity. Jurisdiction. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge CRAWFORD. Muscogee Superior Court.. November Term, 1879. Mrs. Watson filed her bill, alleging, in brief, as set out. in the first head-note and the decision. Moses pleaded to-the jurisdiction, alleging that he was a resident of Fulton county, while the bill was filed in Muscogee. The plea was overruled. He then demurred to the bill for want of equity and because he was not connected with the relief prayed for against the manufacturing company. The demurrer was overruled. Complainant suggested the death, of one of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Justice.
This was a bill filed by Mrs. Watson against the Columbus Manufacturing Company, of Muscogee county,, her husband as her trustee, and Brooks and Statesberry non-residents of this state, and Moses their attorney at law, a resident of Fulton county. It alleges that a certificate of certain stock of the company, held by her husband as her trustee, is now in possession of Moses, as-attorney for the non-resident defendants, who has notified the company not to pay her dividends thereon; that the certificate of stock was transferred in blank by her husband without her knowledge and…
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