Case ID: ga_74/html/0829-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jackson, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Inman, Swann & Company vs. Foster, trustee.
    The jury found the following verdict: “We, the jury, sustain exceptions numbers 1, 2 and 3, and find for complainants $1,500 principal, and $1,499.66 interest to date, the said amount to come out of the tract of land formerly owned by R. J. Willis, deceased, now in possession of Inman, Swann & Co.:”
    
      Held, that, construing the verdict by the pleadings and history of the case on its former trials, in respect to the issues made by the pleadings, and giving it a reasonable intendment, it was the intention of the jury to subject all the land which Inman,' Swann & Co. bought from Heard and wife, or which was conveyed to them by Heard and wife, including that subject to dower, and now levied on by virtue of the decree. 65 Ga., 82; 69 Id., 385; 72 Id., 79.
    (a.) An afiidavit of illegality cannot go behind a judgment or decree, and the construction of the verdict would hardly be before the court. The decree in this case covers the land levied on, and the execution follows the decree. Code, §§3671, 4215.
    Judgment affirmed.
    March 27, 1885.
   Jackson, Chief Justice.

[The history of this case and the questions involved may be fully seen by reference to 65 Ga., 82; 69 Id., 372, 385; 72 Id., 79.]