Doe ex dem. Vickery v. Roe
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, and motion for new trial, in Hart Superior Court. Before Judge James Thomas, October Term, 1858. This was ejectment by Doe & Joseph Vickery, against Roe casual executor,and John B. Benson,tenantin possession, for a tract or parcel of land, situated in the county of Hart.
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Ejectment, and motion for new trial, in Hart Superior Court. Before Judge James Thomas, October Term, 1858. This was ejectment by Doe & Joseph Vickery, against Roe casual executor,and John B. Benson,tenantin possession, for a tract or parcel of land, situated in the county of Hart. Upon the trial, plaintiff introduced in evidence a grant from the State of Georgia, to Joseph Vickery, the lessor, for the land in dispute, dated 2d August, 1854; proved possession by defendant at the commencement of the suit, and closed. Defendant submitted and offered in evidence the grants, deeds and copy deeds,…
1Opinion of the Court
)By the Court.
Benning, J.
delivering the opinion.
Ought the Court to have granted the motion for a new trial?
I shall begin with the fifth ground of the motion.
That ground contained three specifications. Of these, the first was abandoned, as having been taken by mistake.
The second was, that the Clerk’s certificate was, that the copy of Bull’s deed to Turman, was a copy of the deed itself, and not a transcript from the record of deeds. The certificate was in this form, “ that the within and foregoing writing is a true copy of a deed made by Isaac Bull, to George Turman, on record, in my office,…
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