Banks v. Lee
Supreme Court of Georgia
Deeds. Title. Erasures. Verdict. Before Judge Man-sell. Berriea Superior Court. September Term, 1883. Henry Banks brought complaint for land against Moses C. Lee. Plaintiff showed a chain of title from the state down to himself. Defendant introduced no evidence. One link in plaintiff’s chain was a deed from William Bowles, or Boales (the grantee from the state) to Elijah Radford.
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Deeds. Title. Erasures. Verdict. Before Judge Man-sell. Berriea Superior Court. September Term, 1883. Henry Banks brought complaint for land against Moses C. Lee. Plaintiff showed a chain of title from the state down to himself. Defendant introduced no evidence. One link in plaintiff’s chain was a deed from William Bowles, or Boales (the grantee from the state) to Elijah Radford. In this deed, both in the body and signature, the name of Bowles appears to have been written with a middle initial, prohable “ R,” which was afterwards erased. It was dated January 26, 1838, was probated for record…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff showed a complete chain of title, from the *27grant to William Bowles down to himself, except that one link in the chain was a deed made in the year 1838, by William Bowles to Elijah Radford, in which it appeared that a letter, indicating the initial of a middle name, was erased from the name of Bowles, the grantor, in the body and signature of the deed, but one of the witnesses to the deed, and that one who made probate of it for record in 1848, swore, on interrogatories sued out in the case, that the deed was genuine; that he saw William Bowles, of Jackson…
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