Citation Numbers: 49 Ga. 75
Judges: Johnson, Warner
Filed Date: 5/15/1872
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 1/12/2023
The error complained of in this case'was the refusal of the Court to make the rule absolute against the sheriff on the statement of facts'disclosed in the record. The sheriff levied the moi’tgage ft. fa. on the land described therein as the property of the defendant, and advertised the same for sale; but before the sale thereof, was notified that the defendant’s wife had applied for and had the land set apart as a homestead, for the benefit of herself and minor children, by the Ordinary; that an appeal had been taken from the judgment of the Ordinary allowing the homestead to the Superior Court. Under these circumstances he took the legal advice of his counsel as to his duty, who adyised him to postpone the sale of the land until the present term of the Court, so that the plaintiff might obtain an order of the Court directing him to sell
Judgment affirmed.