Case Name: Murphy vs. The Tallulah Steam Fire Engine Company
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1884-02-09
Citations: 72 Ga. 196
Docket Number: No. 3
Parties: Murphy vs. The Tallulah Steam Fire Engine Company
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 72
Pages: 196–196

Head Matter:
Murphy vs. The Tallulah Steam Fire Engine Company
No. 3.
A bill in equity cannot be dismissed on demurrer at a term prior to that to which the bill,is made returnable. Code, §§4191, 4194.
(a.) Semble, that the act of 1869, which provides for the determination of a demurrer in vacation, contemplates a vacation subsequent the return term of the bill.
(5.) This case differs from that in 32 Ga., 670, 672.
•Judgment reversed.
February 9, 1884.

Opinion:
Jackson, Chief Justice.
[A bill was filed in Fulton superior court, returnable to the'fall term, 1883, thereof. At the spring term, 1883, on demurrer, the bill was dismissed, and complainant excepted.]