Case ID: ga_63/html/0226-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jackson, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hooks vs. Brady et al.
    
    (Warner, CJufei Justice, iieing engaged: In presiding over the senate organizes asa court of impeaeliment, did not sit in this case.)
    If there were equity in the facts set up in thehiO, those facts being denied by the answer, and 'here being affidavits in support of the hill and others of the answer, this court, in such a case, will not control the discretion of the chancellor in denying the injunction, unless clearly abused ; and in this case it was not abused.
    Injunction. Before Judge Crisp. Sumter County. At Chambers. May 2d, 1879.
    Hooks Sed bis bill against Brady et almaking, in brief, the following ease: Complainant sued out an attachment against Curtis Folks, which was levied on certain personalty, and Oscar Folks interposed a claim. By a misapprehension on the part of counsel, resulting from a confusion of eases, no declaration in attachment was filed at the first lerna, and at á subsequent term the attachment was dismissed on that ground. Brady holds a mortgage on the property, and is proceeding to foreclose the same. This is collusive and for the purpose of defeating the complainant, Oscar Folks not claiming as against the mortgage. All the parties are insolvent. The prayer was for injunction against the mortgage, to subject the property, etc.
    The answer denied the leading allegations of the bill. Tiiere were affidavits in support of both bill and answer.
    The court refused the injunction, and complainant excepted.
    Guerry & Son, for plaintiff in error.
    J. A. Ansley ; J. W. Brady ; J. L. Black, for defendants.
   Jackson, Justice.

The party complaining should have pleaded properly and in time in the claim case. But even if equity would have relieved against his failure to file the declaration in attachment, it was in the discretion of the chancellor to grant or to refuse the injunction, because the answer swore off all the facts in the bill as to title in defendant in attachment, and it was supported by suudry affidavits. So that the bill and depositions supporting it were one way, and the answer and depositions supporting it were the other, thus producing conflict of evidence, in which case the discretion of the chancellor will not be controlled in refusing the injunction unless it has been abused. In this case it was not abused.

Judgment affirmed.