Adams v. Morris

1. “While the mere right of possession of personal property, even if the holder has no valid title to it, gives him a right to maintain a suit in trover against a wrongdoer who has deprived him of that possession, yet where the plaintiff relies on his title to recover possession of the property, and his evidence shows that a paramount outstanding title to the property is in a third person, he can not recover.” Beverly v. Wilson, 19 Ga. App. 393 (91 S. E. 515), and cit.

2. Under the above-stated ruling and the facts of the instant case, the trial judge in the municipal court of Atlanta did not…