Thornton v. Lane
Supreme Court of Georgia
Debt, &c. in Muscogee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Iverson, at November Adjourned Term, 1851. This was an action brought by Richard A. Lane, against Dozier Thornton, as one of the stockholdenRf the Planters’ & Mechanics’ Bank of Columbus, to enforce his ultimate liability to redeem the bills issued by the said bank.
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Debt, &c. in Muscogee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Iverson, at November Adjourned Term, 1851. This was an action brought by Richard A. Lane, against Dozier Thornton, as one of the stockholdenRf the Planters’ & Mechanics’ Bank of Columbus, to enforce his ultimate liability to redeem the bills issued by the said bank. To this declaration, defendant below filed the following pleas: 1 st. And now at this Term comes the defendant, by Hines Holt, his attorney, and defends the wrong and injury, when, &e. and for plea and answer saith, that he does not owe in manner and form as the said…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
After the time spent in the re-argument of this cause, the complaint will not be reiterated, I trust, that the questions .involved have been decided with “ constitutional haste,” whatever other objections maybe urged against the judgment.
We have listened patiently at least, if not with unmixed pleasure, to eight elaborate arguments, occupying more than as many days, on questions, some of which have never been disputed, and most of them heretofore solemnly adjudicated by this Court.
[1.] As to the right of a party to re-assign upon another writ of…
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