20 Ga. 689 | Ga. | 1856
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
In this case, the judgment was a general one, that the motion for a new trial should be granted. That motion was put on several grounds. One of these was the decision of the Court rejecting the parol evidence offered in connection with the entry on the fi. fa. This ground, we think, was a sufficient one.
Parol evidence is, of necessity, admissible, to apply a writing to its subject.
In such cases, the inaccurate part of the description is to •be rejected.
The Sheriff’s deed contained a recital to the effect, that he had seized and sold the land under the rejected fi. fa. The -defendant insisted that this recital was evidence of the facts •recited, although the Ji. fa. itself was not in evidence. The •Judge thought that it was, and made it.the ground on which •He granted the new trial.
In this we differ with him. As the fi. fa. was not in evidence, there was nothing in evidence to show that the Sheriff had authority to make deed or recitals. And unless he had authority to make the recitals, they could not be of any virtue.