Case Name: Maddox vs. Gray, Administrator
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1885
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 241
Docket Number: 
Parties: Maddox vs. Gray, Administrator.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 241–241

Head Matter:
Maddox vs. Gray, Administrator.
Ejectment, from Coi.umisia. Deeds. Delivery. Title. (Before Judge Roney.)
Salem Dutcher; D. C. Moore, for plaintiff in error.
Thos. E. Watson; for defendant.
[Jackson, C. J., not presiding, on account of providential causes.),

Opinion:
Blandford, J.
Delivery of a deed is essential to the conveyance of title thereby. Where it was shown that a deed w-as made and that the granter said that the land belonged to the grantee; but it was proved that the deed never was recorded, and was found by the grantee among the papers of the grantor after his death, there was no sufficient evidence of delivery, and a verdict finding against a title set up under such a deed was right. Ross, administrator, vs. Campbell, et al., (September term, 1884)
Judgment affirmed.