Carver Cotton Gin Co. v. Barrett & Caswell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Title. Taxes. Before Judge Snead. Richmond Superior Court. October Term, 1880. Plaintiffs in error brought their bill to the October term, 1878, of Richmond superior court, against Barrett & Caswell, "and Charles H. Sibley, as sheriff, alleging that it was a Massachusetts corporation.
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Equity. Title. Taxes. Before Judge Snead. Richmond Superior Court. October Term, 1880. Plaintiffs in error brought their bill to the October term, 1878, of Richmond superior court, against Barrett & Caswell, "and Charles H. Sibley, as sheriff, alleging that it was a Massachusetts corporation. That Robert Schley being largely indebted to it, on April 2,6th. 1877, made and delivered to it a deed “ to the undivided one-third interest in all that tract or parcel of land * * * known as Belleville Factory, together with the charters, acts of incorporation and franchises connected therewith,’’ “ to…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The court below sustained the demurrer to the bill of complainant, and to that judgment the complainant excepted.
*529The bill is brought by the Carver Cotton Gin Company, a Massachusetts corporation, to recover from the defendants, Barrett & Caswell, the one-third interest of that corporation in certain lands sold for taxes and bought by defendants on the ground that defendants are tenants in common with this corporation, fraudulently got the land sold for taxes and bought it in at a very inadequate price.
The title which the corporation shows to the third part of the land…
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