Summerville Macadamized, Road Co. v. Baker
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice in Superior Court. Costs. Practice in Supreme Court. Before Judge Snead. Richmond Superior Court. April Term, 1882. Baker brought ejectment against the Summerville Macadamized, etc., Road Company, and recovered a verdict for certain described lands.
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Practice in Superior Court. Costs. Practice in Supreme Court. Before Judge Snead. Richmond Superior Court. April Term, 1882. Baker brought ejectment against the Summerville Macadamized, etc., Road Company, and recovered a verdict for certain described lands. The defendant brought the case to the Supreme Court' where a reversal was granted on terms (February Term, 1882). The terms stated in the remitter are as follows : “The judgment ofthecourtbelow.be reversed, on the ground that the court erred in charging to the effect that the line of plaintiff extended to the centre of defendant’s…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
This record makes only three questions requiring our notice.
The case was before this court at the February Term, 1882*, and the judgment of the court below was reversed on the ground that the court erred in charging to the effect that the line of the plaintiff extended to the centre of defendant’s road-bed, and a new trial was ordered, unless the plaintiff agreed to run the line from the southern extremity or edge of defendant’s road-bed of fifty feet, and to correct the verdict accordingly. When this judgment was certified to the court below, and was placed upon the minutes,…
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