105 Ga. 285 | Ga. | 1898
The plaintiff in error filed his bill against John A. Crawford, Mrs. Elizabeth Barna, and John Underwood, in the superior court of Bartow county, in the year 1867. The subject-matter of the bill was the title to lot of land No. 544 in the 17th district, 3d section of Bartow county, to which complainant claimed title by virtue of a conveyance from Mrs. Barna. The prayer of the bill was, that as the defendants, who formerly owned the legal and equitable title to the lot, had received and used the purchase-money paid to them by complainant, the court decree to the complainant a good and sufficient title to the lot, and that the defendants be required to pay rents for the land while complainant was deprived of possession by them, and that defendants be required to deliver to complainant possession of the lot; that if legal title was found to exist in the estate of George W. Underwood, of which John A. Crawford was administrator and the other defendants heirs at law, the estate be divided, the lot of land be assigned to Mrs. Barna, and she hold the same in trust for complainant, and she be decreed to deliver possession to complainant in accordance with the deed theretofore made by her; that the defendants be enjoined from tailing the rents and profits of the land, but that the
Judgment on main bill of exceptions affirmed. Oross-biM dismissed.