Floyd v. Carswell

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

The petitioner sought to enjoin the defendant from cutting timber on a 46-acre tract of land shown by all the evidence to be a part of lot 263 in the 24th' District of Twiggs County, Georgia, and to recover damages for timber already cut therefrom. The direction of the verdict in favor of the petitioner for the land and injunction is by this writ of error brought under review. The petitioner proved a recorded title beginning with a deed from Land to Hodges in 1872, and ending with a deed from his stepgrandmother to his mother in 1912, and proved that as the only heir…