Equitable Loan & Security Co. v. Lewman
Supreme Court of Georgia
Levy and claim. Before Judge Lumpkin. Fulton superior court. October 19, 1904. On December 18, 1865, Timothy Burke conveyed by deed to Mrs, Maria L. Harris a lot in the City of Atlanta, 100 by 275 feet, having a frontage of 100 feet on the east side of what was then known as Collins street. She entered into possession and for years occupied a house erected on the north half of this lot.
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Levy and claim. Before Judge Lumpkin. Fulton superior court. October 19, 1904. On December 18, 1865, Timothy Burke conveyed by deed to Mrs, Maria L. Harris a lot in the City of Atlanta, 100 by 275 feet, having a frontage of 100 feet on the east side of what was then known as Collins street. She entered into possession and for years occupied a house erected on the north half of this lot. Subsequently, in 1878 or 1879, her son-in-law, E. M. Farrar, built a house on the south half of the lot, with money which he borrowed for that purpose, and he and his family lived there continuously from that…
1Opinion of the CourtEvaNS, J.
(After stating the facts.) 1. This not being the first grant of a new trial, and the presiding judge having expressed himself as satisfied with the finding of the jury upon the only issue submitted to them for their determination, their verdict should be .allowed to stand if sufficiently supported by the evidence, unless the plaintiff in fi. fa., Lewman, was unjustly prevented from presenting his contention that the Equitable Loan & Security Co. was es-topped from asserting title to the land levied on. There was, we think, ample evidence to sustain the conclusion that the deed from Mrs.…
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