Vick v. Georgia Power Co.

(After stating the facts.) The burden was on the plaintiff to make out his case as brought, by a preponderance of the evidence, and to do so with that degree of clearness and certainty as would show his right to recover on one of the following grounds: (1) That his intestate died seized and possessed of the land in dispute. (2) On prior possession alone. (3) On title in his intestate by prescription.

The intestate, Abner M. Vick, it appears from testimony of plaintiff, had moved off the disputed land, allowed the houses to burn, fences to decay, and the place to grow up in waste or pasture…