Legal Opinion

Temples v. Temples

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 13, 1883PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Title. Equity. Notice. Before Judge Pottle. Hart Superior Court. March Term, 1882. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Hall, Justice.

The defendants, M. D. C. Temples and Matthews, exchanged lands with each other, the former giving to the latter seventeen acres of land for fifty acres. Immediately upon this exchange, each took possession of the land he acquired from the other. The complainant had purchased and paid for five acres of the seventeen exchanged by Temples with Matthews, prior to said exchange, but was never in possession of any portion of it, and had no conveyance thereto. The transaction between him and Temples was verbal only. Some three months after Matthews *481went into possession, but before he…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Pitts v. McWhorterSupreme Court of Georgia · 1847
  2. Allen v. HoldingSupreme Court of Georgia · 1859
  3. Skinner v. WillisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1875

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. May v. SorrellSupreme Court of Georgia · 1922
  2. Grace v. MeansSupreme Court of Georgia · 1907
  3. Bird v. TrapnellSupreme Court of Georgia · 1917
  4. Waycross Military Association v. HiersSupreme Court of Georgia · 1953
  5. Baldwin v. SherwoodSupreme Court of Georgia · 1903

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