REPORTS 499

OF

CASES IN LAW AND EQUITY,

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA,

AT MILLEDGEVILLE,

PARTS OF DECEMBER TERM, 1868, AND JUNE TERM, 1869.

VOLUME XXXVIII.

Law Schic

By N. J. HAMMOND, Reporten

CINCINNATI (

Macon, Georgia :

J. W. BURKE & CO., PUBLISHERS.

1869.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
N. J. HAMMOND,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States f the Northern District of Georgia.

JUDGES AND OFFICERS

OF THE

SUPREME COURT,

UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1865.

HON. HIRAM WARNER, Chief Justice, GREENVILLE.
HON. IVERSON L. HARRIS, MILLEDGEVILLE.
HON. DAWSON A. WALKER, DALTON.

N. J. HAMMOND, Reporter, ATLANTA.
CHARLES W. DuBOSE, Clerk, SPARTA.

Patanla Circuit,.......... .Hon. JOHN T. CLARK,.
Southern Circuit,...... ........ Hon. A. H. HANSELL,.
South-Western Circuit,....
.......Hon. DAVID A. VASON,
Tallapoosa Circuit,.................
Western Circuit,.......

Madison.

Madison.

Hon. JOHN W. H. UNDERWOOD,........Rome.
Hon. N. L. HUTCHINS,......... Lawrenceville.

JUDGES AND OFFICERS

OF THE

SUPREME COURT,

UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1868.

HON. JOSEPH E. BROWN, Chief Justice, ATLANTA.

HON. H. K. McCAY, AMERICUS.

HON. HIRAM WARNER, GREENVILLE.

N. J. HAMMOND, Reporter, ATLANTA.

B. B. DEGRAFFENREID, Clerk, MILLEDGeville.

JUDGES OF THE SUPERIOR COURTS

UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1868.

Atlanta Circuit,..

Blue Ridge Circuit,...
..........Hon. NOEL B. KNIGHT......

.Marietta

Brunswick Circuit,................. ..Hon. W. M. SESSIONS,.

.Blackshear

Chattahoochee Circuit,......Hon. JAMES JOHNSON,..

...Columbus

In 1868 Coweta Circuit was abolished, and Atlanta and Rome Circuits wer
made.