Burkhalter v. Edwards
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, in Tatnall Superior Court. Tried before Judge Holt, October Term, 1854. ' The facts of this case are .as follows: In 1816, a grant was issued by the State to William Wilder, for seven thousand ■acres of land in the County of Tatnall. In 1823,- Wilder conveyed the land to Ebenezer Jenks, and in 1833, Jenks conveyed to William H. Edwards, the defendant in error.
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Ejectment, in Tatnall Superior Court. Tried before Judge Holt, October Term, 1854. ' The facts of this case are .as follows: In 1816, a grant was issued by the State to William Wilder, for seven thousand ■acres of land in the County of Tatnall. In 1823,- Wilder conveyed the land to Ebenezer Jenks, and in 1833, Jenks conveyed to William H. Edwards, the defendant in error. In 1838, Edwards being engaged, Rt the time,- in litigation, concerning the purchase-money of the land, instituted proceedings to have a portion of the tract run up as vacant land. At the same time, one John TI. Smith was…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
It is not advisable, we apprehend, to enter minutely into the consideration of all the points, in detail, which are spread out upon this record. It would involve unnecessary repetition. Having expressed the opinion of the Court, upon the main questions which must control the present and future disposition to be made of this case, we shall have discharged our duty.
[1.] Was the Court right in rejecting the testimony of Wm. B. Gaulden, Esquire, the Attorney of the defendant, and who tendered himself as a witness, to prove that he applied to the…
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