Fuller v. Smith

Jordan, Presiding Justice.

C. P. Fuller et al., plaintiffs below, filed a suit for ejectment in the Telfair Superior Court against Herman Smith alleging that the latter was in wrongful possession of property to which the former held both prescriptive and *752record title. During the trial, the trial court directed a verdict against the plaintiffs on the issue of prescriptive title, holding that the plaintiffs had not presented sufficient evidence of continuous possession for seven (and therefore, necessarily, 20) years. See Code Ann. §§ 85-402, 85-406, 85-407. Following the trial, the jury…