137 Ga. 258 | Ga. | 1911
The plaintiff, R. V. Bowen, filed his petition against G-. E. Hunter, alleging that he was.the “owner of a certain tract of land situated in the southeast corner of the west half of lot of land number two hundred and sixty-nine in the third district of originally Irwin, afterwards Wilcox, now Ben Hill county, the title thereto being derived as herein shown; the said described tract of land and other portions of the same land lot in the year 1887 belonged to D. E. Hunter, the father of the defendant, who had long owned the same and been in actual possession thereof, and his ownership and possession were open, peaceable, and notorious and accompanied by a claim of right;- on September 27th, 1887, the said D. E. Hunter conveyed to his said son a portion of the land above described, and thereupon his son, the defendant,
Judgment reversed.