Chidsey v. Brookes
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint for land. Before Judge Wright. Floyd superior court. February 1, 1907. B. L. Chidsey, W. B. Chidsey, George B. Chidsey, and James Berrien Chidsey and Sarah Frances Chidsey (the last two by their next friend, George F. Chidsey) filed their petition in the superior court of Floyd county against W. W. Brookes, J. B. Sullivan, and others, as trustees of Shorter College, to recover an undivided one-eighth interest in a described lot of land.
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Complaint for land. Before Judge Wright. Floyd superior court. February 1, 1907. B. L. Chidsey, W. B. Chidsey, George B. Chidsey, and James Berrien Chidsey and Sarah Frances Chidsey (the last two by their next friend, George F. Chidsey) filed their petition in the superior court of Floyd county against W. W. Brookes, J. B. Sullivan, and others, as trustees of Shorter College, to recover an undivided one-eighth interest in a described lot of land. It was alleged that each of the petitioners was the owner of an undivided one-fortieth interest in the land described; and that the land was in the…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
(After stating the facts.) “When the Supreme Court has before it both a main bill of exceptions and a cross-bill of exceptions, and the latter presents a question which is controlling upon the case as a whole, it will be disposed of first; and if the judgment therein excepted to is reversed, the writ of error issued upon the former will be dismissed.” Rives v. Rives, 113 Ga. 392 (39 S. E. 79) ; Cheshire v. Williams, 101 Ga. 814 (29 S. E. 191). The demurrer in the present case raises the question of the right of the plaintiffs to recover on the title alleged in the petition. In the recent ease…
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