51 Ga. App. 472 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1935
This was an action of trover. The case was submitted to the trial judge upon the following agreed statement of facts: “On April 1, 1931, John M. Blain made; executed and delivered to May Thirza Corbin his certain deed to secure debt, as security for a loan of $3500, covering the following described real estate, to wit: ‘All that certain lot, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being on Wilmington Island, Chatham County, Georgia, and known as Lot Number 100 according to the plan made by Percy Sugden for the Wilmington Pleasure and Improvement Company, August 15, 1892, said lot having a frontage of 60 feet, more or less, on East Boulevard, and a rectangular depth of 300 feet, more or less, to Third Avenue, and being bounded northwardly by Third Avenue, easwardly by Lot Number 101, southwardly by East Boulevard, and westwardly by Lot Number 99 in said subdivision;’ which deed to secure debt was duly recorded in the clerk’s office of the superior court of Chatham County, Georgia, in Book of Deeds 27 K’s, folio 320, and which deed to secure debt contained power of attorney to sell in the event of default of the covenants set forth
1. Bealty or real property includes all land and buildings thereon, and all things permanently attached to either, or any interest therein or issued out of or dependent thereon. Code of 1933, 8 85-201.
3. Trover is the proper remedy where there has been a wrongful severance of fixtures from real estate and taking thereof by the defendant. 26 C. J. 734, § 126, and cit.
4. Applying the above principles to the facts of this case, the trial judge did not err in overruling the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
Judgment affirmed.