170 Ga. 62 | Ga. | 1930
This is a claim case involving the title to a tract of land in Jackson County, Georgia. On April 7, 1914, Mrs. Sarah A. Turner loaned J. L. Martin $900 to pay J. N. Smith on account of the purchase-money of said land purchased by Smith at a sale held by C. L. Bryson as trustee in bankruptcy of J. L. Martin. Smith bid off the land at the sale of the trustee for $1495, and he sold it for $1500, of which sum G. EL Martin paid $600 and the remaining $900 was loaned by Mrs. Sarah A. Turner to J. L. Martin. J. N. Smith executed to Mrs. Turner a deed to the land. At the request of J. L. Martin Mrs. Turner executed a bond for title to G. EC. Martin instead of to himself. The bond for title, instead of obligating Mrs. Turner to make a deed to J. L. Martin upon the payment of the debt, bound her “to make or cause to be
A comparison of the record in this case with that in Martin v. Turner, 166 Ga. 393, shows that both these cases concern the same transaction and deal with the same questions. In the case of Martin v. Turner, supra, there appears a full statement of the facts, to which, in considering the facts as stated in this case, there needs only to be added that the suit in the city court upon the note given by J. L. Martin to Mrs. Sarah A. Turner for $900 was, by appropriate order of the superior court of Jackson county, transferred to the superior court and consolidated with the equitable petition brought by G. H. Martin against J. C. Turner as executor of Sarah A. Turner, on December 5, 1935. It is true that by this order further proceedings in the city court of Jefferson were enjoined, but this did not prevent or forbid the rendition of the judgment in the superior court upon which was issued the fi. fa., the progress of which was arrested by the interposition of the claim of the plaintiff in error. On August 8, 1937, the jury in the superior court of Jackson county, after said case had been transferred to the superior court upon the equitable petition filed by the present plaintiff in error, rendered the verdict upon which is based the sub
Judgment affirmed.