Court Opinion

ID: 9589532
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:45:49.372283+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:02.658256
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On Motion For Rehearing.
Able counsel for the defendant in error contend in their motion for rehearing that the court overlooked the principle of law in Minor v. Fincher, 206 Ga. 721 (58 S. E. 2d 389), and cases cited therein, and the case of Patterson v. Baugh, 56 Ga. App. 660 (193 S. E. 664). We have restudied these cases carefully, since counsel for the defendant in error seem so earnest and enthusiastic in their contentions on rehearing. We can see very little similarity in the evidence regarding those two cases and the evidence in the instant case. In Minor v. Fincher, the court predicates the decision on, “Where the sole evidence relied upon by the plaintiff . . .” In Patterson v. Baugh, this court held that “The plaintiff thus failed to prove a title in the plaintiffs by paper title back to the State, prescription for twenty years, prescription under color of title for seven years, or in any other way known to the law.” In the instant case, the plaintiff in error proved that he purchased the land in 1935. The defendant in error introduced the deed, which was of record, and which described the property particularly. The evidence showed that he paid for the land, went into immediate possession of it, and has been in possession constantly since that time by virtue of said deed, and has been paying taxes on the land. So far as *360the evidence revealed, there has never been any dispute as to the line since the defendant in error went into possession, and the neighbors all recognized it as the line. Moreover, J. L. Moore, who cut the timber and sold it to the plaintiff in error, admitted that he cut the timber over the disputed line of the defendant in error. The record further reveals that the defendant in error testified: “I did not put the blazers there, but I was with him [meaning the surveyor]; I did not tell him where to put the blazers. I know where the line was, but I wanted a registered surveyor to- put it there and not myself. I had the blazers that the surveyor put there, and that is where the surveyor said the line was. I know where the-line was before he put it there . . . some of the trees that were cut were right in the middle of my property way away from the line. . . Moore was cutting all the way across through the property from one side, and all through the place ... all the way from one side of the property to the other, all the way through. . . I bought this property in 1935. I have been familiar with the property for seventeen years.” ■

Motion for rehearing denied.

Townsend and Carlisle, JJ., concur.