42 Ga. 386 | Ga. | 1871
A fi. fa. obtained in 1867, in favor of D. II. Baldwin & Company, was levied on the land of Flewellen, and the property sold in March, 1869. Before the sale, Flewellen notified the sheriff that he would move to open a judgment held by Bradley, which was of older date, before June, 1868, which he had. Moses by transfer, became the purchaser of the property, and also of the two judgment fi. fas; and there being no motion made at the ensuing term of the Court to open the Bradley judgment, under the Relief Act of 1868, Moses demanded the money in the sheriff’s hands to be applied first to it, which he did, crediting the balance on the younger, or Baldwin fi. fa; then it was levied for the balance upon Flewellen’s plantation in Quitman county. This bill was filed, and injunction moved to stop the sale under the levy, and the main ground of. equity relied on, grows out of the fact that the proceedings to scale the Bradley judgment were still
Judgment affirmed.