Doe ex demise Shipp v. Rob
Supreme Court of Georgia
Statute of limitations. Husband and wife. Separate estate. Adverse possession. Before Judge Clark. Lee Superior Court, April Term, 1872. Plaintiff in error brought ejectment on the several demisesof Elizabeth Warmick, Joseph R. Shipp, and of Joseph R. Shipp in right of his wife, against defendants in error, for lot of land number two hundred and twenty-nine, in the first district of said county, containing two hundred and two and a half acres, more or less.
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Statute of limitations. Husband and wife. Separate estate. Adverse possession. Before Judge Clark. Lee Superior Court, April Term, 1872. Plaintiff in error brought ejectment on the several demisesof Elizabeth Warmick, Joseph R. Shipp, and of Joseph R. Shipp in right of his wife, against defendants in error, for lot of land number two hundred and twenty-nine, in the first district of said county, containing two hundred and two and a half acres, more or less. The defendants relied on the statute of limitation. The following evidence was introduced for the plaintiff: 1st. Plat and grant in usual…
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was an action of ejectment on the several demises of Elizabeth Warmiek, Joseph R. Shipp, and of Shipp in right of his wife, who had intermarried with Elizabeth Warmiek, the donor of the land, against the defendants to recover the possession of lot number two hundred and twenty-nine in the first district of Lee county. On the trial the jury found a verdict for the defendant. A motion was made for a new trial on the several grounds specified in the record, which was overruled by the Court, and the plaintiff excepted. The defense relied on by the defendant was the…
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