Case ID: ga-app_23/html/0161-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

9531.
    Farmers Supply Company v. Smith.
    Decided October 16, 1918.
    Rehearing denied January 14, 1919.
    Complaint; from city court of Yaldosta—Judge Cranford. January 18, 1918.
    
      John J. Murry, E. K. Wilcox, for plaintiff.
    
      John P. Knight, Dan R. Bruce, for defendant.
   Luke, J.

1. A conveyance of realty in the form of an absolute fee-simple deed can be shown by parol evidence to be only a security deed, where the grantor, after making the deed', retains possession of the realty conveyed. Askew v. Thompson, 129 Ga. 325 (58 S. E. 854); Spencer v. Schuman, 132 Ga. 515 (64 S. E. 466). See also Pusser v. Thompson, 132 Ga. 280-284 (64 S. E. 75, 22 L. R. A. (N. S.) 571.

2. The charge of the court fully and fairly presented the issues to the jury. For none of the reasons assigned did the judge err in charging the jury.

3. The evidence authorized the verdict, which has the approval of the trial judge. It was not error to overrule the motion for a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

Wade, C. J., and Jenkins, J., concur.