Holton v. Mercer

Mrs. E. M. Mercer and Nathan Cohen, herein referred to as the plaintiffs, obtained a dispossessory warrant against J. C. Holton, herein referred to as the defendant. The land in dispute is described as “the portion of lot 367 in the 5th land district of Bacon County, on the west side of the old Alma-Hazlehurst public road, containing sixty acres, more or less.” The defendant filed a counter affidavit, claiming this tract by reason of a gift from his mother, Mrs. M. S. Holton, to him in 1913, and that he then went into possession and was at present in possession of the tract as the rightful…