Hunt v. Dunn
Supreme Court of Georgia
Title. Prescription. Fraud. Notice. Before Judge Brown. Pickens Superior Court. May Term. 18S4. Hunt et al. brought ejectment against Dunn et al., demises being laid in the name of Hunt, the drawer of the lot, down to Lyle et al., the real plaintiffs. Both the plaintiffs and defendants claimed by chain of title under the drawer of the lot, the title of plaintiffs being the older. Defendants set up prescription by adverse possession for more than seven years.
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Title. Prescription. Fraud. Notice. Before Judge Brown. Pickens Superior Court. May Term. 18S4. Hunt et al. brought ejectment against Dunn et al., demises being laid in the name of Hunt, the drawer of the lot, down to Lyle et al., the real plaintiffs. Both the plaintiffs and defendants claimed by chain of title under the drawer of the lot, the title of plaintiffs being the older. Defendants set up prescription by adverse possession for more than seven years. In reply to this, plaintiffs insisted that in order to make out the title by prescription, it was necessary to tack to their own…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
Both parties to this suit claim under title purporting to emanate from the drawer of the lot of land in question; the plaintiffs’ title is the older of the two, and was admitted to record before the defendants’. Two of defendants’ feoffors, Thompson and Gross, purchased the land in 1868, some years after plaintiffs’ title was registered, and took immediate possession of it. Thompson sold and conveyed his interest therein to Cross, on 25th of April, 1870, who remained in possession of the entire tract until May, 1876, ■when he sold and conveyed it to Sylvanus Moss and Anderson…
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