Case Name: Harrell vs. Holt et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1885
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 37
Docket Number: 
Parties: Harrell vs. Holt et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 37–37

Head Matter:
Harrell vs. Holt et al.
Certiorari, from Pulaski. Forcible entry and detainer. (Before Judge Kibbee.)
J. B. Mitchell; A. C. Pate ; W. L. Grice, for plaintiff in error.
Jordan & Watson ; J. H. Martin, for defendants.

Opinion:
Hall, J.
On the trial of a warrant for forcible entry and detainer, the evidence showed that the principal defendant had recently been in possession of the land and tenements in question; that, in her absence, they had been entered on surreptitiously and secretly, 'without her knowledge and against her consent, by the agent and would-be tenant of the plaintiff, they breaking open the house which had been securely fastened, and removing corn found in the building; that in a few days thereafter, the principal defendant came to the place with her furniture and household goods, and demanded restoration of possession; that neither she nor those accompanying and assisting her to remove her goods to the premises made use of any violence or uttered any threats or menaces; aud that her entry was not accompanied by force or the display of arms. The jury summoned to try the case found for the defendants :
Held, that, on the petition for certiorari which showed the above facts, the sanction of the presiding judge was properly refused. Code, .§§4524, 4525, 4526, 4085, 4087.
Judgment affirmed.