Bryant v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Parker. Charlton superior court. March 9, 1903. The petition alleges that when the Waycross & Florida Railroad Company was constructed through Charlton county in 1880, -the title to a strip 2 1/8 miles in length and 200 feet in width was in dispute, Bryant and Buck both claiming title to this tract; that it was agreed with the officers of the railroad company that the track shouid be built, and that after the dispute was “ settled, said…
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Action for damages. Before Judge Parker. Charlton superior court. March 9, 1903. The petition alleges that when the Waycross & Florida Railroad Company was constructed through Charlton county in 1880, -the title to a strip 2 1/8 miles in length and 200 feet in width was in dispute, Bryant and Buck both claiming title to this tract; that it was agreed with the officers of the railroad company that the track shouid be built, and that after the dispute was “ settled, said railway company would then pay the successful party for the land taken and occupied for its line of road and right of way . .…
1Opinion of the CourtLamar, J.
(after stating the foregoing facts.) Some of the joint plaintiffs sued as heirs at law of Bryant, one of the parties to the contract by which the strip of land had been sold to the Way cross & Florida Railroad Company, the purchase-price to be payable when it was settled who was entitled thereto. It was not averred that there was no administration on his estate, and there was no allegation that the estate owed no debts, and nothing to take the ease out of the rule that a suit for the purchase-money of land should be prosecuted by the administrator and not by the heirs at law. Civil Code, §…
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