Kidd v. Mayor of Milledgeville

Hawkins, Justice.

This case was transferred to this court by the Court of Appeals. “ 'Cases respecting title to land,’ as that term is used in the Constitution for the purpose of defining the jurisdiction of this court, refer to and mean actions at law, such as ejectment and statutory substitutes, in which the plaintiff asserts a presently enforceable legal title against the possession of the defendant for the purpose of recovering the land.” Bond v. Ray, 207 Ga. 559, 561 (63 S. E. 2d 399). The present proceeding is not an ejectment suit, nor a statutory substitute, but is one which seeks a…