Moody v. Vondereau
Supreme Court of Georgia
Claim. Before Judge Brand. Clarke superior court. November 26, 1907. W. H. Ficklin was the owner of. a tract of land. On March 13, 1895, he executed a mortgage on the same to Moody. The mortgage was transferred to Holliday, who obtained a judgment of foreclosure. Holliday transferred the execution and judgment to Mrs. O’Farrell.
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Claim. Before Judge Brand. Clarke superior court. November 26, 1907. W. H. Ficklin was the owner of. a tract of land. On March 13, 1895, he executed a mortgage on the same to Moody. The mortgage was transferred to Holliday, who obtained a judgment of foreclosure. Holliday transferred the execution and judgment to Mrs. O’Farrell. In 1897 a portion of the land was sold at a tax sale to Thomas Potts, treasurer, the tax deed describing the land so sold as follows: “About twenty-five acres of land, more or less, in Clarke county, Georgia, and in the corporate limits of the city of Athens, and…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, P. J.
(After stating the facts.)
1. This is the first grant of a new trial to the claimant, and under the Civil Code, §5585, the judgment will not be disturbed unless, the law and the facts demanded the verdict. The plaintiff in-error contends that the title of the claimant depends on the validity of the tax sale at which Davis was the purchaser, and that this sale is void for the reason that the description of the *524land in tbe levy and in the sheriff’s deed is so vague and uncertain that it is impossible to locate the land, even with the aid of parol evidence. If the claimant’s title be found…
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