Legal Opinion

Williams v. Cash

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 15, 1859PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Ejectment, in Cass Superior Court. Tried before Judge Tbippe, at September Term, 1858. This was an action of ejectment by Doe, ex clem., Jesse Cash, against Roe, casual ejector, and Benjamin F. Williams, tenant in possession, for the recovery of lots of land Nos. 1141, 1163 and 1164, in the seventeenth district, third section, of originally Cherokee, now Cass county, each containg forty acres. Brief of Evidence.

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Ejectment, in Cass Superior Court. Tried before Judge Tbippe, at September Term, 1858. This was an action of ejectment by Doe, ex clem., Jesse Cash, against Roe, casual ejector, and Benjamin F. Williams, tenant in possession, for the recovery of lots of land Nos. 1141, 1163 and 1164, in the seventeenth district, third section, of originally Cherokee, now Cass county, each containg forty acres. Brief of Evidence. Plaintiff offered and read, in evidence, a grant from the State to Cash, the lessor, for the lots in controversy. A deed from Cash to James Dickerson for same lots, and a…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

McDonald J.

delivering the opinion.

This was an action of ejectment, in the Superior Court of Cass county. The jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant moved for a new trial on the several grounds set forth in the foregoing statement, by the Reporter. The presiding Judge refused to grant a new trial, and error is assigned on his judgment refusing it. According to the record before us, the defendant entered into possession of the premises sued for under the lessor of the plaintiff, Jesse Cash, either undera verbal donation or of a promise to give the land to the…

2Cited by8 opinions

  1. Coogler v. RogersSupreme Court of Florida · 1889
  2. Hart v. BostwickSupreme Court of Florida · 1872
  3. Bentley v. PhillipsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1930
  4. Wolf v. HoltonMichigan Supreme Court · 1892
  5. Watters v. HertzSupreme Court of Georgia · 1911

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