Case Name: Allen vs. Napier et al., Ex'rs
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1885
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 140
Docket Number: 
Parties: Allen vs. Napier et al., Ex’rs.
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Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 140–140

Head Matter:
Allen vs. Napier et al., Ex’rs.
Ejectment, from Bibb. Prescription. Possession. Bond for Titles. (Before Judge Simmons.)
R. W. Stubbs; J. H. Toole ; W. Wylly, for plaintiff in error.
H. F. Strohecker; W. Dessau, for defendants.

Opinion:
Blandford, J.
The owner of certain land died, and subsequently his executors brought ejectment against the tenant in possession. The defendant relied upon a bond for titles made to him by the executors as individuals, with seven years' possession thereunder. Plaintiffs showed that the purchase.money had not been paid, and that the person in possession had demanded that the executors, as such, should rent him the land and acknowledged that the title was in the estate:
Held, that a recovery by the plaintiffs was proper. Possession, to be adverse, must be in the right of the possessor seeking to prescribe thereunder, and not in the right of another. Code, §2679; 24 Ga., 466; 67 Id., 606.
Judgment affirmed.