Doe ex demise Harrison v. Roe
Supreme Court of Georgia
Statutory title. Statute of limitations. Adverse possession. Before Judge Strozier. Worth Superior Court. November Term, 1871. John Doe, on the demises of James Harrison, Thomas Degg and Joel R; G. PXorne, brought ejectment against Richard Roe, casual ejector, and James Young, tenant in possession, for lot of land situate in the sixth district of originally Irwin now Worth county, being number three hundred in said district, containing four hundred and ninety acres, more or…
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Statutory title. Statute of limitations. Adverse possession. Before Judge Strozier. Worth Superior Court. November Term, 1871. John Doe, on the demises of James Harrison, Thomas Degg and Joel R; G. PXorne, brought ejectment against Richard Roe, casual ejector, and James Young, tenant in possession, for lot of land situate in the sixth district of originally Irwin now Worth county, being number three hundred in said district, containing four hundred and ninety acres, more or less. Benjamin Willis was made a party defendant at the trial term. Upon the trial plaintiff introduced the following…
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, Judge.
This action was brought against Young for lot number three hundred, in the sixth district of Worth. Young, it seems, went into possession in January, 1862, by permission of Willis, who held a deed to the lot dated prior to that time.
Young built a house, in one corner of the lot, deadened a few acres, and shortly after left the land, but in about a year after re-entered under a deed from Willis to one hundred acres of the lot, the whole lot containing over four hundred acres, and remained in possession until suit brought on the 16th day of October, 1869. At the trial term…
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