Bowen v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Protest to processioners’ return. Before Judge Kimsey. White superior court. October term, 1896. Processioners made a return accompanied by a surveyor’s plat of the west half of land lot 4 in the 2d district of White county."
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Protest to processioners’ return. Before Judge Kimsey. White superior court. October term, 1896. Processioners made a return accompanied by a surveyor’s plat of the west half of land lot 4 in the 2d district of White county." Bowen, the owner of the adjoining lot 4 in the 1st district, filed his protest against the line as run by the processioners between said two lots; setting forth what he claimed to be the true line, and showing that he and those under whom he holds have been in possession exclusive and continuous up to the line as he described it, for over sixty years. A trial was had,…
1Opinion of the CourtLittle, J.
The official report states the facts. The head-notes state the conclusion of the court on the points decided, .and need hut little elaboration.
Processioners are not charged, under the law as we understand it, with ascertaining and- marking such lines as were originally fixed between subdivisions of land, to the exclusion of such lines as have been before the time of processioning established either by the act of the parties or by operation of law. When a claim is made by a coterminous owner, of actual possession under a claim of right for more than seven years, to a portion of the land found…
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