Thompson v. Richards
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Carroll Superior Court. Decision by Judge* Bull, February Term, 1856. This was a bill filed by Thompson, setting forth that in Feb. 1858, an action of ejectment was commenced against him,. on the several demises of William, Peter and John Manley, heirs at law of Wm.
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In Equity, in Carroll Superior Court. Decision by Judge* Bull, February Term, 1856. This was a bill filed by Thompson, setting forth that in Feb. 1858, an action of ejectment was commenced against him,. on the several demises of William, Peter and John Manley, heirs at law of Wm. Manley, dec’d, and of J. R. Richards and of John and B. M. Long, to recover a certain lot of land, which action is still pending, one verdict having been rendered for plaintiffs for three-fourths of said lot; that plaintiffs showed a grant from the State to the Manleys ; a deed from them to Richards, and from him to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] This case was before this Court at Decatur, August, 1854, (16 Ga. R. 440,) and we held there was no equity iii the bill. It presents no new feature. We see, therefore, no reason to over-rule the decision then made.
[2.] It is straining pretty hard, perhaps; to' adopt the' 32 Henry VIII. in a new country like this has been; and we feel no disposition to relax the rule which allows the grantee, whose deed is made void by that Statute, to use the name of ■his grantor to recover the premises.
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