Sizemore v. Willis
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment. Before Judge Whipple. Stewart superior court. May 24, 1907. ' This was an action of ejectment by W. J. Sizemore and others against Green Willis and another. It appeared, from the evidence, that George W. Sizemore had been married twice, that the plaintiffs- were his children by the first marriage, and that the defendants claim title through mesne conveyances from his widow and from his children by the second marriage.
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Ejectment. Before Judge Whipple. Stewart superior court. May 24, 1907. ' This was an action of ejectment by W. J. Sizemore and others against Green Willis and another. It appeared, from the evidence, that George W. Sizemore had been married twice, that the plaintiffs- were his children by the first marriage, and that the defendants claim title through mesne conveyances from his widow and from his children by the second marriage. The plaintiffs proved that G. W. Sizemore died in 1884, in possession of the land in controversy, having been in possession for more than twenty years immediately…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, P. J.
(After stating the facts.)
1. When the plaintiffs showed that their father, G. W. Size-more, died in possession of the premises, leaving a widow and eight children, four of whom are the plaintiffs, and there was no administration on his estate, they showed prima facie a right to recover their undivided moiety in the land. The defendants also claimed under George W. Sizemore. The title on which they relied was, a judgment of a year’s support, setting aside the interest of G. W. Sizemore in the land to Martha J. Sizemore and her four minor children, and successive conveyances from- the widow to…
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