Case ID: ga_86/html/0506-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bleckley, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Davis v. Taylor et al., executors.
    Where the defendant in ejectment had been in possession more than seven years under color of title and claim of right when the action was brought, her insolvency is not cause for her expulsion and the appointment of a receiver to secure the mesne profits pending the suit on a petition in the nature of a bill in equity filed for that purpose by the plaintiffs in ejectment.
    By two Justices.
    January 14, 1891.
    Receiver. Ejectment. Title. Insolvency. Before Judge Maddox. Haralson county. At chambers, November 17, 1890.
    Reported in the decision.
    Adamson & Jackson, and W. F. Brown, for plaintiff iu error.
    McBride & Edwards, contra.
    
   Bleckley, Chief Justice.

At the time the action of ejectment was brought the defendant in that action, Mrs. Davis, had been m jiossession of the premises under color of title and claim of right for more than seven years. During that time there is no indication in the evidence that she ever acknowledged title in the plaintiffs in ejectment or in any one else. She seems to have held for herself against the world. We think, under these circumstances, that it was a mistake for the judge by a summary order to turn her out of possession and place the property in the hands of a receiver to await trial and judgment in the action of ejectment. The plaintiffs having acquiesced for more than seven years in the adverse holding, were chargeable with laches, and this ought to count against them in their application for a receiver. Had they brought their action promptly before the attachment of aprima facie bar, perhaps they would have been entitled to a receiver pending the action to secure the mesne profits, the defendant being insolvent. But a possession so ancient and long-con-’ tinued should not he disturbed by an interlocutory ■order in advance of a trial by jury.

Judgment reversed.