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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lott v. Peterson.
    Simmons, J. — Neither forcible entry nor forcible detainer was constituted by merely refusing, peaceably and without any threat or display of force, to desist from enclosing, under claim of right, a church edifice on request of one of the trustees of the church who visited the premises while the work was in progress, nor by afterwards locking the gate of the enclosure and posting thereon a warning in these terms: “All persons are positively forbidden to trespass upon these grounds by or under any deed or other instrument of writing not given by the undersigned. The worship of God is not prohibited when the above is fully complied with.” Curry v. Hendry, 46 Qa. 631; Stuckey v. Carlelon, 66 Qa. 215; Blackwell v. The State, 74 Ga. 816.
    October 22,1894.
    Petition for certiorari. Before Judge Sweat. Coffee ■county. June 9, 1894.
    Holton & Son and E. D. GIraham, for plaintiff in error.
   Judgment reversed.