Legal Opinion
Mayes v. Simons
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 15, 1940No. 12987PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bell, Justice.
This was an action by D. L. Mayes and Miss America Mayes against the present owner of a described tract of land, Mrs. M. L. Felts, and her tenant, E. E. Simons, seeking to enjoin cultivation and other trespasses with respect to a designated portion of the land, upon the alleged ground that more than one hundred years ago it was appropriated by the plaintiffs’ grandfather as a family cemetery, and that it continued to exist as such until the husband of the present owner, after acquiring the tract in 1924, “cleared olí and plowed over said cemetery lot” and removed markers from…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Jacobus v. Congregation of ChildrenSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899
- McBride v. Georgia Railway & Electric Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1906
- Hines v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1911
- Tracy v. BittleSupreme Court of Missouri · 1908
- Hook v. JoyceCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1893
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Young Men's Christian Assn. v. BaileyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1965
- Week v. Big Bunker Hill Mining Corp.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1941
- Robinson v. MurraySupreme Court of Georgia · 1944
- Brock v. Avery Company, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1959
- Brooks v. FincherCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1979
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