Farrow v. Bullock
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment. Prescription. Fraud. Before Judge Lester. Lumpkin Superior Court. April Term, 1879. Bullock brought complaint for land'against Farrow. He claimed under a regular chain of title from the state down to himself. Defendant claimed a prescriptive title. The evidence in his behalf was as follows : 1. W. M. Patton, who testified as follows : Had known the lot twenty-two years.
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Ejectment. Prescription. Fraud. Before Judge Lester. Lumpkin Superior Court. April Term, 1879. Bullock brought complaint for land'against Farrow. He claimed under a regular chain of title from the state down to himself. Defendant claimed a prescriptive title. The evidence in his behalf was as follows : 1. W. M. Patton, who testified as follows : Had known the lot twenty-two years. Peter Walker was.in possession in 1856. How many years Walker had lived on it before that time witness did not know. Witness bought this lot with two others, from Peter. ‘ Obtained only a quit-claim for this one,…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Justice.
The plaintiff showed a regular chain of title from the state to himself. Defendant relied upon prescription founded upon adverse possession in himself and grantor for ■twenty years by itself and seven years with color of title. *362In, neither case was the possession adverse in defendant’s grantor. He took a quit-claim when he first went into possession, from a man who told him he had no title to the land, and only sold his possession, paying only one dollar for the lot. So that, under the Code, the grantor’s possession originated in fraud, and was not good to found a…
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