Loudon v. Coleman
Supreme Court of Georgia
Judgments. Misnomer. Machinist’s lieu. Verdict. Bankrupt. Liens. New trial. Practice in the Superior Court. Argument. Eees. Before Judge Crawford. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1878. In May, 1872, several attachments and. an execution, based on the foreclosure of a machinist’s lien, were levied upon the property of the Empire Cotton Seed Huller and Oil Company, a foreign corporation.
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Judgments. Misnomer. Machinist’s lieu. Verdict. Bankrupt. Liens. New trial. Practice in the Superior Court. Argument. Eees. Before Judge Crawford. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1878. In May, 1872, several attachments and. an execution, based on the foreclosure of a machinist’s lien, were levied upon the property of the Empire Cotton Seed Huller and Oil Company, a foreign corporation. The levy was np>on personalty, of a perishable nature, all of which was sold, under order of the judge of the superior court, on June 14, 1872, producing the net sum of $5,125.00. Conflicting claims on this…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Justice.
1. The state of the record considered, the grounds of- the motion in arrest of judgment were not appropriate to such a motion. A motion in arrest can properly be based on nothing but what is apparent on the face of the record or pleadings. Code, §3587. As to the points made on the verdict, they are .answered by the fact that the verdict, construed in the light of the pleadings, and considering the nature of the issues on trial, is not only intelligible, but sufficiently definite and certain.' It would not be difficult to enter up, on the verdict, a judgment which would carry…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Loudon v. ColemanSupreme Court of Georgia · 1877
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