Case ID: ga_113/html/0234-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Peppers v. Coil.
    Submitted March 2,
    Decided March 25, 1901.
    Equitable petition. Before Judge Russell. Jackson superior court. February 15, 1900.
    
      W. W. Stark, for plaintiff.
    
      Shackelford, & Shackelford, for defendant.
   Simmons, C. J.

1. Where in the foreclosure of a landlord’s lien the defendant-contested the lien and gave a replevy bond for the eventual condemnation-money, and the case was appealed to the superior court, where the jury found •against the defendant, it was legal and proper to enter up judgment against the defendant, and also against the sureties on the replevy bond, without further notice to them. Civil Code, §§ 2817, 5342.

2. In such a proceeding it was not necessary for the levying officer to take a forthcoming bond. Civil Code, §2816, par. 8 ; Herrington v. Saulsbury, 52 Ga. 396 ; Wynn v. Knight, 53 Ga. 568.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lewis, J., absent.