Cole v. Long
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment. Notice. Before Judge Knight. Gilmer Superior Court. October Term, 1871. This was ejectment, brought in January, 1860, upon the several demises of the heirs of Mary Meyers, of Palmour, and of Henry G. Cole, against Levi and J .C. Long, tenants. The tenancy and locus were admitted.
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Ejectment. Notice. Before Judge Knight. Gilmer Superior Court. October Term, 1871. This was ejectment, brought in January, 1860, upon the several demises of the heirs of Mary Meyers, of Palmour, and of Henry G. Cole, against Levi and J .C. Long, tenants. The tenancy and locus were admitted. Plaintiff put in evidence a grant from the State to Mary Meyers, issued in 1843; a deed from certain persons, as her heirs, to Palmour, dated the 20th of February, 1835, and a deed from Palmour to Cole, dated the 22d of July, 1853. He showed that Mary Meyers was dead, and that Palmour’s feoffors were her…
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was an action of ejectment to recover the possession of a lot of land in Gilmer county. Both parties claimed to derive their title to the land from Mary Meyers, the drawer, the one by deed from Mary Meyers, and the other by a deed from the heirs-at-law of Mary Meyers. The deed of Mary Meyers, under which the defendants claimed title, was attacked, on the ground that it was a forgery, and evidence was introduced before the jury as to that fact. The defendant also relied on a prescriptive title of seven years’ possession, under claim of right, under color of title.…
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