Dollar v. Roddenbery
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover. Before Judge Bower. Decatur superior court. * November term, 1895. Roddenbery brought trover and bail against Dollar et al. The case was submitted to the judge on the facts hereafter stated, and he decided that plaintiff should recover the value of the property sued for. Defendants excepted. Plaintiff offered in evidence deed to the land on which the crop in dispute was grown.
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Trover. Before Judge Bower. Decatur superior court. * November term, 1895. Roddenbery brought trover and bail against Dollar et al. The case was submitted to the judge on the facts hereafter stated, and he decided that plaintiff should recover the value of the property sued for. Defendants excepted. Plaintiff offered in evidence deed to the land on which the crop in dispute was grown. Defendants, who claimed the crop, were tenants of Emma E. Dollar, whose husband made her a deed to it in 1888, which was recorded on October 26, 1889. On September 17, 1888, she made a deed to G-. A. Wight to…
1Opinion of the Court
Atkinson, Justice.
A judgment in this State operates only as a lien upon the property of the debtor, and neither divests his title, nor in any manner interferes with his right of possession or control over his property, until it is enforced and the title transferred to another by a sale under execution. Notwithstanding the rendition of a judgment against him, the owner of land may lawfully let the same to a tenant for years or at will. The tenant, however, takes the leased *150premises subject to tbe right of the judgment creditor to terminate its existence by tbe enforcement of tbe judgment a…
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