McDowell v. Sutlive
Supreme Court of Georgia
Judgments. Res Adjudicata. Ejectment. Estates. Landlord and Tenant. Prescription. Ouster. Betterments. Jury and Jurors. Practice in Superior Court. Before Judge John T. Clarke. Early Superior Court. April Term, 1886. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
From this confused and intricate record, made so by former proceedings in the case, we deduce the following facts : It appears that in 1869 or 1870, one Broadwater cultivated the premises in dispute as the tenant of Bethea. In the latter year, William H. Powell, and other parties under whom he claimed, brought ejectment against Broadwater to recover the land. To this suit Broadwater filed issuable pleas, but does not seem to have vouched his landlord as the real party. The case was tried in 1871, and by consent of counsel representing the parties, a verdict was returned finding…
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