91 Ga. 577 | Ga. | 1893
The premises sued for are described in the declaration thus: “ a certain tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the city of Brunswick, said county and State, and known or designated on the map or plan of said city, hiade by George R. Baldwin in the year 1837,' as old town lot number twenty-four (24), and which is in the shape of a rectangle, measuring ninety by one hundred and eighty feet, and bounded on the west by Bay street, east by Oglethorpe street, south by lot number twenty-five, and north by lot number twenty-three.” A demise was laid from Sylvester Mumford, and another from Oceanna Sears. Three deeds were introduced by the plaintiff; the first from Bart, as mayor of the city of Brunswick, to Abiel II. Merriam, dated at the top December 31st, 1841, and at the bottom January 31st, 1842, and purporting to be based on a sale for city taxes for the year 1841, the sale being made on the 31st of December in that year. The second was a deed from Henry Merrill and Harriet Merrill to Sylvester Mumford, dated October 27th, 1852. The third was a deed from Sylvester Mumford to Oceanna Sears, dated September 14th, 1888. There was evidence that Merriam
Judgment reversed. On cross-bill, affirmed.