Dickerson v. Powell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, in Baker Superior Court. Tried before Judge Allen, at November Term, 1856. This was an action of ejectment by Kedar Powell against Roger Q. Dickerson, for the recovery of two lots of land, numbers 278 and 279, in Baker county. Plaintiff introduced in evidence a grant from the State and a regular chain of title of both lots, down to Joseph B. Shores.
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Ejectment, in Baker Superior Court. Tried before Judge Allen, at November Term, 1856. This was an action of ejectment by Kedar Powell against Roger Q. Dickerson, for the recovery of two lots of land, numbers 278 and 279, in Baker county. Plaintiff introduced in evidence a grant from the State and a regular chain of title of both lots, down to Joseph B. Shores. A mortgage from Shores to himself, dated the first August, 1840. The judgment foreclosing said mortgage, the levy on said lots under the mortgage fi. fa., the sale thereof by the Sheriff, and the Sheriff’s deed to him, dated the fifth…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] This case depends upon the validity of the rule absolute, at the instance of Dickerson against Clayton, in Baker-Superior Court, December Term, 1850. It recites that the. defendant had failed to pay into Court the principal and interest due upon the mortgage debt, or to show any cause,, why the equity of redemption in and to the mortgaged premises should not he forever barred and foreclosed. And therefore, it was “ordered and adjudged by the Court that the plaintiff do have and recover of the defendant the sum of three thousand five hundred…
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