Watts v. Griswold
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for land,' in Jones Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hardeman, October Term, 1856. This was an action brought by Samuel Griswold against Henry Watts for the recovery of a lot of land.
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Action for land,' in Jones Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hardeman, October Term, 1856. This was an action brought by Samuel Griswold against Henry Watts for the recovery of a lot of land. The plaintiff relied upon a statutory title of seven years peaceable, continuous and adverse possession; the land was a pine lot uninclosed ; the proof was, that Griswold had a saw-mill near the land, and for several years cut stocks for his mill, made roads and causeways, and for other years cut lightwood and firewood off the land. Several errors are assigned, but the cause ^turned upon the following…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] There is but a single question in this case: did the facts proven constitute adverse possession of the lot of land in dispute, so as to ripen into a statutory title in behalf of .Samuel Griswold, the plaintiff?
The testimony is .brief: Griswold owned a saw-mill near this uninclosed pine lot; for four or five years he cut stocks for his mill and hauled them from the premises, and made roads and causeways for that purpose; and for several years more, cut lightwood and firewood for the rail road off the .land. It is conceded, for the purposes of…
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