74 Ga. 273 | Ga. | 1884
This bill was brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error to perfect titles to a lot of land in
If this court had ever held any principle antagonistic to this overwhelming conviction of her power over her own territory, and her right, through her own courts, to exercise judicially that power, a full bench should review and' reverse such a principle.
The case at bar shows title in the complainant, and to remove all clouds therefrom and settle it is the great object of the bill. Payment of all the purchase money for land and possession thereunder make title in Georgia, on which, if ousted, ejectment can be maintained and recovery had. It makes a perfect equity, and for defence or recovery becomes just as effective between the parties as a grant from the state, with regular chain of title down to .the litigant. It is in no sense a chose in action or a personal action, but affects the rem, the land and its recovery.
Let it be borne in mind that the principle contended for by the able and energetic counsel for the plaintiffs in error
Judgment áffirmed.