Ingram v. Little
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment in Crawford Superior Court. Tried before Judge Johnson, March Term, 1853. This was an action to recover possession of land, brought by William G. Little against Bryan Ingram and others. The plaintiff introduced a grant from the State to John B. Adair for the land in question; and a deed dated 19th Dec. 1833, from Adair to himself.
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Ejectment in Crawford Superior Court. Tried before Judge Johnson, March Term, 1853. This was an action to recover possession of land, brought by William G. Little against Bryan Ingram and others. The plaintiff introduced a grant from the State to John B. Adair for the land in question; and a deed dated 19th Dec. 1833, from Adair to himself. The deed was objected to as showing on its face that several portions of it, viz: the name of the grantee ; the amount of the consideration; a part of the date and the county when executed, were written in different ink and hand-writing from the body of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The great question in this case is upon the validity nf the deed. It ivas duly signed, sealed, attested and written out, except as to the name of the feoffee; the amount of the purchase-money to be paid for the land; and some other things not material. In this condition, it was taken by Mr. Anderson to Milledgeville, and there, in the presence of the purchaser, Mr. Little, he and the brother of the grantor, acting under a parol authority, filled out the blanks and delivered it. Subsequently, Adair, the feoffor, acknowledged in presence of a…
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