Lessee of Veasey v. Graham
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, in Dougherty Superior Court. Tried before Judge Perkins, November Term, 1854. In this case, both plaintiffs and defendant claimed under the Bank of Hawkinsville, the land in dispute. The defendants in error offered in evidence a deed to the land, purporting to be made by the Bank of Hawkinsville, dated 4th August, 1842, for the consideration of $2,000, conveying this land to John Rawls.
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Ejectment, in Dougherty Superior Court. Tried before Judge Perkins, November Term, 1854. In this case, both plaintiffs and defendant claimed under the Bank of Hawkinsville, the land in dispute. The defendants in error offered in evidence a deed to the land, purporting to be made by the Bank of Hawkinsville, dated 4th August, 1842, for the consideration of $2,000, conveying this land to John Rawls. The deed was signed by John Rawls, President, and countersigned by George W. Hines, Cashier. It was recorded in 1858. Plaintiffs in error objected to its introduction— 1st. Because Rawls had no…
1Opinion of the Court
*101 By the Court.
Lumpícin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The only question we propose to examine in this case is, was the deed from Rawls, as President of the Hawlcinsville Bank to himself good, either as title or color of title, to protect his possession, which, it is conceded, continued for more than seven years?
It was assumed in the argument, that the concurrence of four directors was necessary, by the charter of the Ilawkinsville Bank, to convey land. There is no such provision in the charter. By the 3d of the fundamental rules of the constitution of said corporation, it is provided, it is…
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