99 Ga. 216 | Ga. | 1896
1. The act of December 13th, 1866 (Acts 1866, p. 42), “to change the place of holding legal sales in the county of Muscogee,” and the act to amend the same, approved October 10th, 1868 (Acts 1868, p. 164), were valid and constitutional laws under the constitutions of 1865 and 1868, there being nothing in either of these constitutions prohibiting the enactment of special laws in cases for which provision had been made by an existing general law. Burks v. Morgan, 84 Ga. 627.
2. These special acts not being inconsistent with the constitution of 1877, were kept of force by- paragraph 4, section 1, article 12, of ¡that instrument. Code, §5233; Adam v. Wright, 84 Ga. 720.
3. .Whether the act of September 19th, 1883, relating to> public sales in the county named (Acts 1882-3, p. 658), is constitutional or not, it contains nothing rendering it unlawful to hold sheriff’s sales at any of the places designated in the two acts first above cited. The sale involved in the present case having been held at one of the places specified in the act of 1866, was lawful as to place.
4. The judge was authorized in finding as matter of fact that the ■bid. which the sheriff declined to accept or cry was not authorized by the person as whose agent'it was contended the bidder - was acting, and hence there was no error in holding that this bid was properly rejected.'
5. There.was no abuse of discretion in denying the injunction.
/-udgment affirmed.