Lanier v. Dyer

Eberhardt, Judge.

1. (a) Where the grantor, or his privy, in a security deed remains in possession of the premises after lawful foreclosure of the deed, he is a tenant at sufferance and is subject to be summarily dispossessed by the purchaser at the foreclosure sale, or by his privy. Price v. Bloodworth, 55 Ga. App. 268 (189 SE 925).(b) Where the person in possession is a son of the deceased grantor in the security deed, whether claiming as an heir at law or as a devisee under the grantor’s will, he is subject to summary dispossession to the same extent and in the same manner as would have…