Ford v. Holmes
Supreme Court of Georgia
Administrators and executors. Ordinary. Title. Witness. Evidence. Prescription. Jurors. New trial. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge Hall. Pike Superior Court.
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Administrators and executors. Ordinary. Title. Witness. Evidence. Prescription. Jurors. New trial. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge Hall. Pike Superior Court. April Term, 1875. On the 9th day of February, 1874, the complainant, Ford, filed his bill against the defendant, Holmes, alleging that about the year 1850 or 1851, he bought of his uncle, Castleberry, the south half of lot of land number three, in the eighth district of originally Monroe, now Pike county, containing one hundred and one and a quarter acres, more or less — went into possession thereof, and cleared a plantation…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Justice.
1. As to the jurisdiction of the ordinary to require the representatives of Castleberry to execute a title to Ford, the case is governed by section 2549 of the Code, which reads as follows: “If the intestate, during his'life, executed a bond to make titles to land, and dies without making such titles, the holder of such bond, after having complied with its conditions, may apply to the ordinary having jurisdiction over the estate, for an order requiring the administra*428tor to execute the titles according to the terms of the bond, in all cases annexing to his petition a copy of…
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