Lessee of Dudley v. Bradshaw
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, in Marion Superior Court. Tried before Judge Worrill, at March Term, 1859. This suit was brought by plaintiff in error, for the recovery of lot ofland number one hundred and three, in the eleventh district of Marion county.
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Ejectment, in Marion Superior Court. Tried before Judge Worrill, at March Term, 1859. This suit was brought by plaintiff in error, for the recovery of lot ofland number one hundred and three, in the eleventh district of Marion county. On the trial, plaintiff read in evidence the grant to said lot from the State of Georgia to Oliver Dudley, daled 10th December, 1835; then a deed from Oliver Dudley to Jack Hardman, conveying said lot of land, dated the first day of April, 1857, not recorded, and containing the usual clause of warranty. Defendant having admitted possession, plaintiff here closed…
1Opinion of the Court
— Benning J.
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
Oliver Dudley drew the land. In 1828, after he had drawn it, hut before he had obtained a grant for it, he made a deed for it to Allen Swift, in which deed, there was a clause of warranty, and, it is to be presumed, the usual receipt for the purchase money. In 1835, the State granted the land to Dudley. In 1836, Swift made a deed for the land, to Thurmond ; afterwards, Thurmond made a deed to Greer; and then Greer, a deed to McBryde. Bradshaw was in posses*19sion under McBryde, at the commencement of the action; and this possession, either in…
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