Case Name: Brantley vs. Baker
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1886
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 272
Docket Number: 
Parties: Brantley vs. Baker.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 272–273

Head Matter:
Brantley vs. Baker.
Illegality, fjiom Hancock. Bonds. Mortgages. Written Instruments. Illegality. (Before Judge Lumpkin.)

Opinion:
Jackson, C. J.
1. The giving of a bond is a condition precedent to the return of the papers to court for trial, where an affidavit of illegality is tendered to the execution issued on the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage; and if the bond be not conditioned substantially as the statute requires, the papers ought not to be returned to court and the sale suspended. Code, §3976; 61 Ga., 390, 391.
2. The condition of the bond prescribed by the statute is "for the return of the property when called for by the levying officer." This requirement is not met by a bond the condition of which is that the defendant "should return the property to the levying officer, in case the issue formed on the affidavit of illegality should be found against the said W. D. Brantley" (the defendant); and an affidavit accompanied by such a bond was properly dismissed. Code, §3971, 3972, 3975, 3979; 61 Ga., 391.
•Jordan & Lewis; Harrison & Peeples, for plaintiff in error.
James A. Harley, for defendant.
•Judgment affirmed.