Bond v. Munro
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Lee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Allen, at March Term, 1859. An action of ejectment was brought against the defendant in error fox lot No. 14 in the 2nd district of Lee county, at the instance of James Bond, in the names of Ransom Cain and James Morris. At the trial on the appeal the case turned on the question whether a deed made by Cain to Morris, and one by Morris to Bond were void under the statute. — 32 Henry 8th, ch. 9th.
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In Equity, in Lee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Allen, at March Term, 1859. An action of ejectment was brought against the defendant in error fox lot No. 14 in the 2nd district of Lee county, at the instance of James Bond, in the names of Ransom Cain and James Morris. At the trial on the appeal the case turned on the question whether a deed made by Cain to Morris, and one by Morris to Bond were void under the statute. — 32 Henry 8th, ch. 9th. Judge Allen held the deeds to be void if executed while defendant was in adverse possession, and the jury found for the defendant. The plaintiffs…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benning, J.,
delivering the opinion.
Did the court below err in overruling the demurrer ? We think so.
If there is any equity in the bill, that equity is due to the act of the legislature, referred to in the bill. This proposition may be assumed. ' That act is in the following words :
“ AN ACT to make uniform the Decisions of the Supreme Court of this State; to regulate the reversals of the same, and for other purposes.
Sec. 1. Be it euacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the decisions of the Supreme Court' of this State, which may have been heretofore, or which may…
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