67 Ga. 319 | Ga. | 1881
This action was brought to recover'damages against a constable, an agent, and two landlords, for illegally dispossessing the plaintiff of a tenement in the city of Savannah. The jury found for defendants, and a new trial having been denied him, the plaintiff excepted.
The statute of 1878-9, too, is imperative, and it declares that the officer who executes the process without notice of three days shall be liable as a trespasser. We have no alternative, therefore, but to reverse the judgment and award a new trial on this ground.
Cited for plaintiff in error: Code, §§4078, 4079, 4939,
For defendant: 63 Ga., 172 ; Code, §2967 ; Code, §§4077 et seq., 4890, 4892; 12 Ga., 409; Acts of 1839, p. 138 ; Code, §§4881, 4889; Acts 1871-2,,p. 133; 60 Ga., 107; 42 Ib., 141 ; 59 Ib., 204; 55 Ib., 648 ; 56 Ib., 615 ; 12 Ib., 564; 63 Ib., 683 ; 13 Ib., 260; 61 Ib., 496; 29 Am. R., 214; 15 Ga., 361; 6 Ire., 153; 59 N. Y., 83; 47 Md.. 310; 21 Penn., 37 ; 14 Ohio, 485 ; Code of 1863, p. 13; of 1865, p. 11; of 1873, p. 11 ; 54 Ga., 128; Acts of 1878-9, pp. 32, 49, 136, 137; Smith’s Man. of Common Law, 410-411 ; Bouv. Law Dic., par. 4; 12 Cush. Mass., 475 ; 3 N. Y., 9; 57 Barb., 434.
Judgment reversed.