Griffin v. Stamper
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, in Talbot Superior Court. Tried before Judge Craweord, September Term, 1854. The lot of land in dispute was granted, in 1838, to Daniel Zetler, who, in 1847, conveyed it to Martin J. Stamper. The suit was brought on the several demises of Zetler and Stamper, against John B. Griffin, tenant.
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Ejectment, in Talbot Superior Court. Tried before Judge Craweord, September Term, 1854. The lot of land in dispute was granted, in 1838, to Daniel Zetler, who, in 1847, conveyed it to Martin J. Stamper. The suit was brought on the several demises of Zetler and Stamper, against John B. Griffin, tenant. The defendant relied on the Statute of Limitations, and proved, that in 1836, one Morris purchased the lot of a man calling himself Daniel Zetler — gave his note and took a bond for titles, to be executed 25th December, 1837. Morris afterwards transferred the bond to Rush, who went into…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] Ought the defendant to have been allowed to show that *109Zetler’s bond was a forgery, or that it was made by a fictitious obligor, personating Zetler ?
When this case was last before this Court, (11 Ga. Rep. 636,) we held that the bond for titles, purporting to have been made by Zetler to Morris, and which had been transferred, through several intermediate persons, to the defendants or those under whom they claimed, could not be relied on as color of title, as against Zetler, because the purchase money had not been paid. And now the defendant,…
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