Legal Opinion

Burdell v. Blain

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 15, 1880PublishedCited by 18 opinions

Ejectment. Title. Prescription. Evidence. Verdict. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge MERSHON. Glynn Superior Court. May Term, 1880. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Crawford, Justice.

This was an action of ejectment to recover lot No. 286 in the city of Brunswick, and upon the trial of the case the plaintiff offered in evidence a paper agreement which he defined to be a bond for titles, and which was in the nature of bond for titles to the land in question, stating to the court that he introduced the same only as color of title, and upon which it was proposed to base a prescriptive title. The paper was rejected by the court as evidence, and the defendant, without other or further testimony being offered, was allowed to go to the jury and take a verdict.

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2Cited by18 opinions

  1. Street v. CollierSupreme Court of Georgia · 1903
  2. City of Barnesville v. StaffordSupreme Court of Georgia · 1926
  3. Carstarphen v. HoltSupreme Court of Georgia · 1895
  4. Baxter v. PhillipsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1920
  5. Lee v. O'QuinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898

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