McRae v. Adams
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment. Tried before Judge Fleming. Montgomery Superior Court. March Term, 1867. This was an action of ejectment by Wiley Adams vs. Christopher McRae, for a field in said county covered by each of the grants herein mentioned. Plaintiff claimed under a grant to Abner Davis, for five hundred acres of Headlight's lands, dated January 27th, 1820, and a regular chain of title from Davis .to himself.
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Ejectment. Tried before Judge Fleming. Montgomery Superior Court. March Term, 1867. This was an action of ejectment by Wiley Adams vs. Christopher McRae, for a field in said county covered by each of the grants herein mentioned. Plaintiff claimed under a grant to Abner Davis, for five hundred acres of Headlight's lands, dated January 27th, 1820, and a regular chain of title from Davis .to himself. Defendant claimed under a grant to John Hill Bryant for three hundred acres Headright land, dated-, 1821, and a chain of title from Bryant to parties under whom he claimed to hold. There is no other…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
A verdict having been rendered in the Court below, the plaintiff in error brings the case here upon the grounds alone that the verdict is contrary to evidence, to the law and to the charge of the Court.
1. This Court has no original jurisdiction, but is a Court alone for the correction of errors in law and equity from the Superior and City Courts. Cons. Ar, IV. Sec. 1.
2. Can this Court then correct an error of the jury ? The Constitution says it is a Court alone for the correction of the errors of the Courts; that is, the errors of the Judges presiding in those Courts. Questions of law and…
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