Legal Opinion

Cowan v. Corbett

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 15, 1881PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Year’s Support, Title. Record. Ordinary. Evidence. Before Judge CRISP. Stewart Superior Court. April Term, 1881. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

SPEER, Justice.

A fi.fa., controlled by Cowan as transferee, against Jas. L. Corbett, defendant, was levied on three hundred acres of land, being lot 115 and east half of lot 94, in twenty-second district Stewart county, as the property of defendant, to which defendant in error, as agent for Wallace Corbett, John Corbett, W. J. and C. Corbett, Almira Hawkins, and Jane Alderman, interposed his claim. On the trial plaintiff introduced his fi. fa., proved possession by defendant in fi.fa., since the judgment, and closed.

Claimant introduced evidence from the records of the court of ordinary of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Pope v. HaysSupreme Court of Georgia · 1860

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. State v. WhiteakerOregon Supreme Court · 1926
  2. Winn v. LunsfordSupreme Court of Georgia · 1908
  3. Fitzgerald Granitoid Co. v. Alpha Portland Cement Co.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1914
  4. City of Atlanta v. HawkinsCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1932
  5. Lunsford v. KerseySupreme Court of Georgia · 1941

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