Case ID: ga_76/html/0835-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hall, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Dozier vs. Wilkerson & Hatcher et al.
    
    A married woman has no ground to enjoin the/, fa. issuing upon a judgment of foreclosure of a mortgage against her, which she alleges was given as a security for the debt of her husband, unless she shows that she had a good defence to the suit, of which she was entirely ignorant, or which she was prevented from making before the judgment was rendered, either by fraud or accident, or the conduct of the other party; and such failure to set up her defence must have been unmixed with fraud or negligence on her part. The questions made by the bill were, as between the parties, res adjudicata by the judgment of foreclosure. 70 Ga., 57, 63, 475, 552; 73 Id., 477
      
    
    Judgment affirmed.
    April 27, 1886.
    
      
       See 70 Am. Dec., 603.
    
   Hall, Justice.

[Mrs. Anna W. Dozier filed her bill against Wilkerson & Hatcher et al. to enjoin the enforcement of a fi.fa. issued on the foreclosure pf a mortgage against the complainant and T. R. Persons. She alleged that the mortgage and note were given to secure money loaned by the plaintiffs to her husband and used by him; and that after service of the rule nisi to foreclose the mortgage, she would have made defence, but that her husband assured her that he had arranged the matter and discharged the note and mortgage.

Defendants, Wilkerson & Hatcher, answered, denying that the debt was that of the complainant’s husband, and alleging that the debt was her own, being a loan to conduct her farming operations. They also alleged that when .the mortgage was being foreclosed, a defence first was filed, but by agreement, a rule absolute was allowed to be taken with a stay of execution until the following January, and that upon the arrival of that time, the money was not paid, and when it was sought to enforce tho fi.fa., this bill was filed.

The complainant’s husband, who was made a party defendant, answered, admitting the allegations of the bill, and stating that he thought he had the matter arranged when he so stated.

The chancellor refused the injunction, and the complainant excepted.]