137 Ga. 272 | Ga. | 1911
Polly Ann Hunt filed her petition against George T. Gilmore and his wife, making substantially the following allegations : During the night of December 11, 1906, George T. Gilmore brought with him three other men, one of whom was an officer authorized to make arrests, to the home of the plaintiff and demanded that D. H. Hunt, her husband, pay a debt due by him to said Gilmore. “The said Gilmore exhibited a criminal warrant sworn out by said Gilmore, charging said D. H. Hunt with larceny after trust, and threatened to have the same then and there executed unless said indebtedness was then and there settled and satisfied. The said Gilmore suggested and demanded that petitioner execute the aforesaid deed [a deed hereinafter referred to] in settlement of the indebtedness of said D. H. Hunt; and acting under stress of the surroundings and circumstances, and being coerced by the fears of said threatened criminal prosecution against her hus
Judgment reversed.