Green v. Glass
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ejectment, in Catoosa Superior Court. Tried before Judge Crook, May Term, 1859. This was an action of ejectment to recover lot No. 164, in the 2Sth district and third section of originally Cherokee county.
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Ejectment, in Catoosa Superior Court. Tried before Judge Crook, May Term, 1859. This was an action of ejectment to recover lot No. 164, in the 2Sth district and third section of originally Cherokee county. Plaintiff submitted his proofs and closed, when defendants, amongst other things, tendered in evidence a deed for the premises in dispute, from Littleton D. Glass, the grantor, to William B. Mann, dated 6th February, 1838. This deed purported to have been executed in the State of Alabama, Barbour county, the residence of the grantor, Glass, and “ signed, sealed and delivered in the presence…
1Opinion of the Court
— Lumpkin J.
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
A new trial was moved for in this case, on several grounds, and refused by the Court, and it is to reverse this decision that this writ of error is prosecuted.
We think the witness, Johnson, was permitted to go too far perhaps, in being allowed to state that he knew the land in dispute from the directions given to him by Murra}r, who had once owned it; and likewise, in stating as he did, that one of the persons on the land informed him that his own family, and the family of the other tenant, were living on the premises. But these are minor…
2Cited by1 opinion
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