Goodtitle ex dem. Bond v. Roe
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, in Baker Superior Court. Decided by Judge.Allen, May Term, 1856. This was an action brought to recover lot of land No. 143, in the 9th district of originally Eárly, now Baker County.
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Ejectment, in Baker Superior Court. Decided by Judge.Allen, May Term, 1856. This was an action brought to recover lot of land No. 143, in the 9th district of originally Eárly, now Baker County. There ayere five demises laid in the declaration, in the names of the folloAYing parties, respectively: Elizabeth Bond, Gaines Thompson, Eppy W. Bond, James Patillo and Eppy W. Bond, administrator of Elizabeth Bond, deceased — the demise in the latter having been, by amendment, made in November, 1854. The defendant-, James Watson, was served on the 21st of May, 1851, the suit being returnable to the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
McDonald, J.
delivering the opinion.
• The Court w'as right in granting a new trial in this case. "The verdict was manifestly contrary to evidence.
[1.] On no one of the five demises laid in the declaration ought the Jury to have found a verdict in favor of the plaintiff.' Elizabeth Bond had been dead for nearly thirty years, at the date of the demise from her; no title was offered to sustain the demises from either Gaines Thompson or "Eppy W. Bond.
[2.] The deed to J ames Patillo showed that he had no title at the commencement of the suit; and the evidence is plain, that the Court…
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