Hicks v. Webb
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment. Before Judge Hammond. Johnson superior court. October 16, 1905. This case has been to this court before. Webb v. Hides, 117 Ga. 335. In addition to the very full statement of facts contained in the former report, it is only necessary.to add here that when the case went back to the superior court for a second trial, the defendant amended his plea in the following particulars: He had been in bona fide possession of the premises in dispute under a claim of title…
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Ejectment. Before Judge Hammond. Johnson superior court. October 16, 1905. This case has been to this court before. Webb v. Hides, 117 Ga. 335. In addition to the very full statement of facts contained in the former report, it is only necessary.to add here that when the case went back to the superior court for a second trial, the defendant amended his plea in the following particulars: He had been in bona fide possession of the premises in dispute under a claim of title since 1880, and during said time had placed on said lands permanent improvements of the value of $1730; and he prayed for a…
1Opinion of the CourtBe'ck, J.
(After stating the facts.)
1, 2. The assignments of error referred to in the first and second headnotes are sufficiently dealt with there.
3. By the act of the legislature approved December 21, 1897 (Acts 1897, p. 79), it is provided, “That in all cases where an action has been brought for the recovery of land, the defendant who has bona fide possession of such land under adverse claim of title may set off the value of all permanent improvements bona fide placed thereon by himself or other bona fide claimants under whom he claims; and in case the legal title to the land is found to be in the…
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