Case ID: ga_97/html/0328-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Lumpkin, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Clayton et al. v. West.
    July 25, 1895.
    Complaint for land. Before Judge Wellborn. White-.superior court. October term, .1894.
    . J. W. H. Underwood' and H. H. Dean, for plaintiffs in error. W. T. Grane and J. B. J ones, contra.
   Lumpkin, J.

1. One who was a stranger to a proceeding to> establish a copy of a lost deed, and who neither claims under . the grantee therein nor is.in privity with him, is not estopped. ' from attacking the correctness of the copy established.

2. It appearing from the evidence in the record, taken all together, that the plaintiff below was not a party to the proceeding to establish the .lost copy.in question, the court erred in rejecting evidence offered by him to show that the copy was-not in fact correct, and properly corrected this error by granting. a new trial. Judgment affirmed.