Case ID: ga_126/html/0231-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Atkinson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Equitable Securities Company of New York v. Matthews.
    Argued March 2,
    Decided August 13, 1906.
    Ejectment. Before Judge Littlejohn. Stewart superior court. April 18, 1905.
    
      G. B. Filis and B. L. Maynard, for plaintiff.
    
      F. T. Hickey, for defendant.
   Atkinson, J.

This is a suit in ejectment, and the plaintiff claims under certain deeds as color of title, and possession thereunder for a period of time sufficient to raise a presumption of title by prescription. While the evidence on the question of possession was somewhat confusing, and tended to show such possession in the defendant as would defeat a prescription in favor of the plaintiff, nevertheless it was sufficient to carry the case to the jury; and it was erroneous for the court to grant a nonsuit.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur, except Fish, O. J., absent.