79 Ga. 435 | Ga. | 1888
Grier rented to Cross a.tract of land. ■ The growing crop thereon was afterwards levied upon, under a distress warrant for $100.00 in favor of Grier against Cross. Cross filed a counter-affidavit setting up that he was not indebted, and also filed a bill and asked for the appointment of a receiver, to take charge of the crop and gather and market the same; and a receiver was accordingly appointed. The case went to trial, and the jury found a verdict in favor of Grier for $33.75. The court (there being funds in the hands of the receiver to be distributed) decreed, first, that, all the costs and charges accruing in the case, to-wit, the fees of the auditor and court costs, the pay of the receivers, and the expenses of gathering and housing and mar-' keting the crop, be first paid out of this fund, and that the balance, when ascertained, be equally divided between-Cross and Grier; but that out of the amount going to Cross, the verdict of $33.75 in favor of Grier should be. paid. This decree is excepted to and error assigned thereon.