Legal Opinion

Peek v. Wright

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 15, 1880PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Verdict. New Trial. Equity. Practice in the Superior Court. Charge of Court. Before Judge UNDERWOOD. Polk Superior Court. February Term, 1880. Wright, the defendant in error, having died after the case reached this court, his administrator was made a party in his stead. For the facts, see the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Crawford, Justice.

Wright, the defendant in error, filed his bill in October, 1869, alleging that he was the owner of lot of land No-eleven, in the twentieth district and third section of Polk county; that he and those under whom he claimed had been in the peaceable possession thereof from twelve to twenty years ; that he has a chain of title except from his vendor, whose bond for title he has, with purchase money paid; that he, and those under whom he claims, have cultivated part of it for twenty years, and complainant himself since November, 1863; that defendant has been trespassing upon it;…

2Cited by12 opinions

  1. Broderick v. ReidSupreme Court of Georgia · 1927
  2. Dobbs v. Federal Deposit InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1939
  3. Christopher v. WhitmireSupreme Court of Georgia · 1945
  4. Hairalson v. CarsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
  5. Schmitt v. SchneiderSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900

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