Spurlin v. Towns

1. If A, having no title, execute a deed purporting to convey land to B for life, with vested remainder to children of B, the children will not, by virtue of the deed, acquire such title as will support an action for recovery of the land after the death of B.

la) The ease differs in its facts from McLendon v. Horton, 95 Ga. 54 (22 S. E. 45), where the defendant, while attempting to prescribe under a void tax deed, set up and claimed, both by “his pleadings and evidence,” title from the same source from which the plaintiff claimed to have derived title; and it was held that such pleadings and…