Case ID: ga_146/html/0482-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gilbert, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company v. Williams.
    February 15, 1917.
    Claim to land. Before Judge Kent. Laurens superior court. November 24, 1915.
    
      E. W. Dent and Burch & Burch, for plaintiff.
    
      Williams & Flynt, contra.
   Gilbert, J.

Where one conveys land to another by a-security deed, and takes a bond for title to reeonvey on payment of the debt, the deed conveys the legal title, and “leaves the grantor no interest in the land which can be' subjected to levy and sale by a creditor whose judgment was obtained after the deed was executed.” Before such levy and sale can be made, there must be a redemption of the property, and this can be accomplished only by the payment of the secured debt in full. Civil Code (1910), § 6038; Shumate v. McLendon, 120 Ga. 396 (48 S. E. 10); Ramey v. Denny, 133 Ga. 751 (66 S. E. 918). The court, there-fore, did not err in holding that the land in question was not subject to the execution. Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.