Parker v. Crosby
Supreme Court of Georgia
Application for partition. Before Judge Highsmith. Appling superior court. January 23, 1919. H. J. Parker et al., receivers of the Citizens Banking Company of Baxley, Georgia, for the use of H. Cleland, filed a petition for partition against R. L. Reynolds, S. B. Brooks, and 0. C. Crosby, alleging substantially the following facts: On September 10, 1906, Sarah Crosby conveyed a certain tract of land to F. I. Thornton, who immediately thereafter conveyed an undivided half…
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Application for partition. Before Judge Highsmith. Appling superior court. January 23, 1919. H. J. Parker et al., receivers of the Citizens Banking Company of Baxley, Georgia, for the use of H. Cleland, filed a petition for partition against R. L. Reynolds, S. B. Brooks, and 0. C. Crosby, alleging substantially the following facts: On September 10, 1906, Sarah Crosby conveyed a certain tract of land to F. I. Thornton, who immediately thereafter conveyed an undivided half interest to J. E. Chitty. On May 15, 1907, H. Cleland filed his petition in the superior court of Appling County, against…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. None of the headnotes require elaboration except the first and second. On the trial of the case certain evidence was offered, tending to show declarations m#de by Cleland to Dowdy and Newton, which it. is argued would act as an estoppel on Cleland in setting up title to the land in controversy as against Newton and Ms privies in estate. The evidence was admitted, and later a motion was made to rule it out for the reason that it was not sufficient to show that the declarations were made directly to Newton, or to any one for him. The motion was overruled,…
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