REPORTS

499

OF

CASES IN LAW AND EQUITY,

ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA,

AT ATLANTA.

PART OF JANUARY TERM, 1871.

VOLUME XLII.

By N. J. HAMMOND, Reporter.

No

Law fel

MACON, GEORGIA:

J. W. BURKE & CO., PUBLISHERS. COMPL

1872.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by N. J. HAMMOND,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

JUDGES AND OFFICERS

OF THE

SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA,

DURING THE PERIOD OF THESE REPORTS.

HON. O. A. LOCHRANE, CHIEF JUSTICE... Atlanta.

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Albany Circuit........... HON. PETER J. STOZIER,
Atlanta Circuit........... HON. O. A. LOCHRANE,*
Atlanta Circuit........... HoN. JOHN L. HOPKINS,
Blue Ridge Circuit...... HoN. NOEL B. KNIGHT,.
Brunswick Circuit...... HoN. W. M. SESSIONS,........
Chattahoochee Circuit. HoN. JAMES JOHNSON,

Cherokee Circuit........Hox. JOSIAH R. PARROTT,.

Eastern Circuit.
Flint Circuit..

Macon Circuit..

HON. WILLIAM SCHLEY,.
HON. JAMES W. GREEN,
.HON. C. B. COLE,....

Middle Circuit... .....HON. WILLIAM GIBSON,..
Northern Circuit..... ....HON. GARNETT ANDREWS,.

Albany. .Atlanta.

Marietta. Blackshear. Columbus. . Cartersville. Savannah. Thomaston. Macon.

.......Augusta. Washington.

Ocmulgee Circuit........ HoN. PHILIP B. ROBINSON,............Greensboro'.

Pataula Circuit........ HON. DAVID B. HAKRELL,.

Rome Circuit.......

.HON. F. A. KIRBY,† }

Preston.

......Rome.

..Thomasville.

Rome Circuit. ...... HON. ROBERT D. HARVEY,
Southern Circuit...... HON. JOHN R. ALEXANDER,.
Southwestern Circuit...HoN. JAMES M. CLARK,
Tallapoosa Circuit...... HoN. JOHN S. BIGBY,.
Western Circuit.........HON. C. D. DAVIS,.

Newnan.

..Monroe.

*Lochrane became Judge 20th August, 1870, resigned, and Hopkins became his successor 20th October, 1870.

†Kirby resigned and Harvey became Judge 25th October, 1870.

NOTE.

By Act of 1860, (Revised Code, section 4210), the decisions of the Supreme Court are required to "be announced by a written synopsis of the points decided." These decisions, thus announced from the bench, are, by the Judges, made the head-notes to the cases. Those head-notes followed by (R.) are by the Reporter.