Legal Opinion

Vaughan v. Vaughan

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided April 5, 1900PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Dispossessory warrant. Before Judge Reese. Elbert superior court. March term, 1899.

1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.

1. An affidavit to obtain a warrant to dispossess a tenant holding over should be sufficiently definite and certain in the description of the land to enable the sheriff to identify the premises.

2. It was proper to dismiss such a proceeding where the only description of the land was that deponent “is the owner of a certain tract of land in the 201st district G. M. of said county [the county having been previously named]. Said land being a part of the tract known as the 0. B. Vaughan land. . . That deponent has become the owner of said land, that is, so much of said tract as (33) thirty-three…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Orme v. KingSupreme Court of Georgia · 1878

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Brinson v. IngramCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1969
  2. North v. TolbertCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1949

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