Roe v. Doe
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment in Twiggs Superior Court, tried before Judge Looheane, March Term, 1864. This was an action .of ejectment by Doe, upon the several demises of Henry Williams and Drewry William^, against Roe, casual ejector, and Cowart, tenant in possession, for the recovery of a fractional lot of land, lying on the Ocmulgee river, in the twenty-eighth district of originally Wilkinson, now Twiggs county, and described in the declaration as number 194, containing 196 acres, and known…
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Ejectment in Twiggs Superior Court, tried before Judge Looheane, March Term, 1864. This was an action .of ejectment by Doe, upon the several demises of Henry Williams and Drewry William^, against Roe, casual ejector, and Cowart, tenant in possession, for the recovery of a fractional lot of land, lying on the Ocmulgee river, in the twenty-eighth district of originally Wilkinson, now Twiggs county, and described in the declaration as number 194, containing 196 acres, and known as the “Dawson or Lewis” fraction. The ease was first tried on the appeal, in 1858, and a verdict was rendered for the…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
Two questions are made by this record:
1st. The admission by the Court, as evidence,' of the declarations of Drewry Williams, deceased, the former owner of the premises in dispute, and from whom both titles are derived, that ho had given the land to Henry Williams, the plaintiff, that the land belonged to him, that there was a division by said Drewry "W illiams of his property among his children, in which this land, with other property, fell to the plaintiff; the statements of the witnesses, that Drewry Williams gave the land to his son Henry, that Henry with his father’s knowledge, took…
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- Mobley v. MobleySupreme Court of Georgia · 1851
- Towns ex rel. Clayton v. SpringerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1850
- Rodgers v. EvansSupreme Court of Georgia · 1850
- Doe ex dem. Williams v. RoeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1859
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