Legal Opinion

Pitts v. McWhorter

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided July 15, 1847No. 2PublishedCited by 24 opinions

Ejectment. In Macon Superior Court. Tried before Judge Warren. April Term, 1847. For tbe facts of the case, and the charge of the Court below, which was excepted to, the reader is referred to the opinion delivered by the Supreme Court.

1Opinion of the Court

*9 By the Court

Lumpkin, J.

delivering the opinion.

John McWhorter, one of the lessors of the plaintiff in ejectment, drew lot No. 74, in the 1st District of, originally, Muscogee now Macon County, and some twelve or fifteen years since sold said lot to one Henry L. Sims, for a horse valued at $100, and gave to Sims his bond for titles, the grant not then having issued. Sims afterwards, in 1835, sold the land to William Bullard, and transferred to him the title bond.

An execution in behalf of Smith and Kingley for the use of George Smith, against the said Henry L. Sims and William H. Underwood as…

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