Harrison v. Adcock
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Randolph Superior Court. Decided by Judge Warren, October Term, 1849. The questions in this cause arose upon a motion to dismiss a bill, filed by George W. Harrison against Joseph Adcock, James Suggs and Floyd Conyers.
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In Equity, in Randolph Superior Court. Decided by Judge Warren, October Term, 1849. The questions in this cause arose upon a motion to dismiss a bill, filed by George W. Harrison against Joseph Adcock, James Suggs and Floyd Conyers. The bill charged, that Mary Ann Odem, an illegitimate, drew a lot of land in Randolph County; that on 17th February, 1839, Mary Ann Odem intermarried with Delaware Dean, who thereby became the owner of this lot of land; that on the 21st February, 1839, Joseph Adcock, who had intermarried with the mother of Mary Ann Odem, by various fraudulent representations,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Warner, J.
delivering the opinion.
The complainant alleges in his bill, that the title to the lot of land in controversy, was fraudulently procured by Adcock, from Dean, while the latter was an infant, and that Suggs and Conyers, who derived their title from Adcock, had notice of these facts.
It is farther alleged, that the defendants had been in possession of the land, so conveyed by Dean, ever since 1839, and that in February, 1846, the complainant obtained a deed from the infant, *70Dean, to the land, who was, at the time of making the latter deed, twenty-one years of age.
The prayer…
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