Grizzle v. Gaddis
Supreme Court of Georgia
Contracts. Equity. Specific Performance. “Vendor and Purchaser. Landlord and Tenant. Betterments. Before Judge Estes. Lumpkin Superior Court. April Term, 1885. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
This was an action in the statutory form to recover lots of land numbers 278 and 279, situate, in the (>th district and first section of Lumpkin county. Both parties held under John H. Abercrombie,—the plaintiff by a deed from him dated March 8th, 1883.
In addition to the general issue, the defendant pleaded, in bar of the plaintiff’s recovery, that he went into possession of the premises on the first day of January, 1878, and held possession of them continuously from that time until the commencement of the present suit, under contract (admitted in the argument to be verbal) whh…
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