29 Ga. 45 | Ga. | 1859
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
Was the deed offered by plaintiff from Stanford to Gunby, properly rejected? Delivery being an essential part of a deed, no paper can go as a deed without proof of delivery. There was no proof of it here. Delivery eould not be inferred from possession either of the land or the paper, for it did not appear that either had ever been in the possession of plaintiff or those through whom he claimed, the paper offered being a copy, and not an original. The copy, to be sure,
I udgment reversed.