Dart v. Orme
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Multifariousness, etc. Before Judge Sessions. Glynn Superior Court. November Term, 1869. Francis H. Orme, of the County of Fulton, and Seaborn J. Benning, administrator of Seaborn Jones, deceased, of the County of Muscogee, averred as follows: ' About the year 1733, the city of Brunswick was founded by Gen. Oglethorpe, acting for the King of Great Britain.
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Equity. Multifariousness, etc. Before Judge Sessions. Glynn Superior Court. November Term, 1869. Francis H. Orme, of the County of Fulton, and Seaborn J. Benning, administrator of Seaborn Jones, deceased, of the County of Muscogee, averred as follows: ' About the year 1733, the city of Brunswick was founded by Gen. Oglethorpe, acting for the King of Great Britain. The site was selected, a plan of streets, squares and boundaries was adopted, and by that plan the site was surveyed, marked out- and dedicated to the public for a city. -But none of the ground was cleared up, nor were any…
1Opinion of the CourtWarner, J.
The complainants allege in their .bill that they are the owners of certain described lots in the city of Brunswick which had been surveyed, marked out, and dedicated to the public for a city in the year' 1733, claiming to derive their title to the lots in said city under ancient grants made by the Crown of Great Britain, and the State of Georgia; that many of said lots had been granted by the King before the revolution, and many by the State since the revolution; that before .the year 1800, all the lots in the city of Brunswick had by grant, or sale, passed from the King and State into…
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