Roe v. Doe ex dem. Morrison
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, from Calhoun Superior Court. Tried before-Judge Allen, at November Adjourned Term, 1859. The defendant in error brought his action against plaintiff in error to recover lot of land number 227, in the 4th district of originally Early county. On the trial, plaintiff in the Court below introduced the following evidence: William R. Hatcher testified: That he was acquainted with said lot; had known it about five years; M. A. Hays was living on it.
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Ejectment, from Calhoun Superior Court. Tried before-Judge Allen, at November Adjourned Term, 1859. The defendant in error brought his action against plaintiff in error to recover lot of land number 227, in the 4th district of originally Early county. On the trial, plaintiff in the Court below introduced the following evidence: William R. Hatcher testified: That he was acquainted with said lot; had known it about five years; M. A. Hays was living on it. Abraham Dyer testified : That M. A. Hays resided on the land in the Spring of 1851. Plaintiff then put in evidence a grant from the State for…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.,
delivering the opinion.
This is an action of ejectment to recover lot number 227 of what was formerly Early now Calhoun county. The plaintiff tendered in evidence a grant from the State, and a regular chain of title down to himself. The defendant relied upon the Statute of Limitations.
She proved that Thomas Hunt went into possession of the land in dispute in 1842; that he built houses, cleared land and used the whole as is usual with the owners of land, claiming it as his own; that he occupied the premises, and made a crop upon it in 1843; that in 1844 Thomas Street…
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