Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Georgia at the ..., Volume 88Jas. P. Harrison & Company, printers, 1892 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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action affidavit alleged amount Atlanta attorney authority bank bill of exceptions bond cars charge chisel cited City court claim claimant contract conveyance counsel court erred creditors damages debt debtor December 28 declaration deed defendant defendant's Deitsch demurrage demurrer Dotterer Eddleman engine evidence executed executors facts February 15 fendant filed firm fraud Fulton county Georgia granted ground indebtedness indictment injury insolvent James McGhee Judge Judgment affirmed Judgment reversed jury Justice KING & SPALDING land levy lien March term ment Morgan mortgage motion negligence nonsuit nulla bona overruled paid parties payment Peacock person petition petitioners plaintiff in error plea possession purchase money railroad company reason receiver refused rendered rule Savannah signed solicitor-general statement statute Stillwell sued superior court T. J. Bell testified testimony tion told track train trial trustee verdict W. M. Peterson witness
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Page 341 - ... where a suit is now pending, or may be hereafter brought, in any State court, in which there ie a controversy between a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought and a citizen of another State...
Page 183 - Dougherty at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant, bargain and sell unto the said...
Page 778 - Such companies shall deliver all dispatches to the persons to whom the same are addressed, or to their agents, on payment of any charges due for the same : Provided, such persons or agents reside within one mile of the telegraphic station, or within the city or town in which such station is.
Page 15 - States, he may make and file a petition in such suit in such state court at the time, or any time before the defendant is required by the laws of the state or the rule of the state court in which sitch suit is brought to answer or plead to the declaration or complaint of the plaintiff...
Page 568 - ... it being understood that said car or cars are to be placed and remain accessible to the consignee for the purpose of unloading during the period in which held free of demurrage; that when the period of such demurrage charges commences, they are to be placed accessible to the consignee for unloading purposes...
Page 341 - State, any defendant, being such citizen of another State, may remove such suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district, at any time before the trial thereof, when it shall be made to appear to said circuit court that from prejudice or local influence he will not be able to obtain justice in such State court, or in any other State court to which the said defendant may, under the laws of the State, have the right, on account of such prejudice or local influence, to remove...
Page 264 - Respondent moved for a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to the weight of the evidence, that it was a compromise verdict, and that the damages allowed were inadequate.
Page 568 - ... per car for each day or fraction of a day that said car or cars are thus detained or held.
Page 183 - TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said tract or parcel of land unto him the said Harris C. Jackson his heirs and assigns together with all and singular the rights, members and appurtenances thereof to the same in any manner belonging to his and their own proper use, benefit and behoof forever in fee simple.
Page 813 - Section 2064 of the code, above cited, declares that "in all cases of bailments after proof of *°" loss, the burden of proof is on the bailee to show proper diligence...