Case Name: Cooper vs. Dearing, administrator
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1878-08
Citations: 60 Ga. 633
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cooper vs. Dearing, administrator.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 60
Pages: 633–634

Head Matter:
Cooper vs. Dearing, administrator.
Discharge in bankruptcy does not discharge the lien of a judgment rendered prior to the discharge, upon the bankrupt’s land set apart as a homestead, the creditor never having proved his debt or otherwise waived his lien in the bankrupt court.
Bankruptcy. Judgments. Lien. Before Judge Hall. Newton Superior Court. March Term, 1878.
A fi. fa. in favor of Dearing’s intestate was levied on certain land of Cooper. He both filed an affidavit of illegality, and -claimed the land as his homestead in bankruptcy. The case was submitted to the court without a jury. It appeared that the judgment was rendered in 1867. After-wards Cooper went into bankruptcy, had the land set apart to him as a homestead under the constitution of 1868, and was discharged in 1873. The judgment debt was not proved in the bankrupt court. The judge ordered the fi. fa. to proceed, and Cooper excepted.
J. J. Floyd ; L. B. Anderson, for plaintiff in error.
Clark & Rage for defendant.

Opinion:
Jackson, Judge.
This case is covered and controlled by the case of Bush vs. Lester et al., 55 Ga., 579.
Judgment affirmed.