Bracewell v. Moore

1. While, to entitle a person to recover the possession of personal property by possessory warrant, he must show that the property has previously been in his possession, where the property is placed in the possession of an agent of one purchasing it from the owner, the agent’s possession is the actual possession of his principal, and the principal may maintain a possessory warrant against one who thereafter removes it. Meredith v. Knott, 34 Ga. 222; Hillyer v. Brogden, 67 Ga. 24; Sheriff v. Thompson, 116 Ga. 436 (42 S. E. 738); Wilburn v. Beasley, 31 Ga. App. 107 (2) (119 S. E. 537).

2. In the…