Bivins v. Lessee of Vinzant
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, in Dougherty Superior Court. Tried before Judge Perkins, May Term, 1854. The only question in this cause, arose upon a deed offered in evidence, from the grantee to the defendant in the Court below. The date of the deed was prior to the issuing of the grant. The other party claimed under a younger deed from the same party. The Court below rejected the deed as evidence of title, and this decision is assigned as error.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benningi, J.,
delivering the opinion.
[1.] It appears, that on the 2d day of September, 1822,. a grant was made by the State, to William Yinzant, for number one hundred and thirty-one, in the second district of Early county; that this lot had been drawn by Yinzant, in the land lottery authorized by the Land Lottery Act of 1818.
That on the 9th of September, 1822, Yinzant and his wife, by deed, conveyed the lot to Tippins; that from Tippins down to the plaintiff, there was a regular chain of title.
It also appears, that the same Yinzant, the drawer, on the 15th of January, 1821,…
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