120 Ga. 45 | Ga. | 1904
This was a proceediug, before the ordinary of Richmond county, to have certain obstructions removed from an alleged private way. The original petition made a case, in behalf of the petitioner, of title by prescription to the way, by. reason of twenty years continuous and uninterrupted user thereof. The respondent to the rule nisi demurred to the petition, upon various grounds, two of which have been argued here, viz.: because it was not alleged that the way was ever laid out by the petitioner, and because it was not alleged that the owners of the land over which the right of way was claimed ever had knowledge that the way was laid out, used, and enjoyed. Pending this demurrer, the petitioner amended the paragraphs of the petition in reference to the user of the way, “ so that said paragraphs when amended [should] read as follows: ” that is, that the described way had been used, in the manner alleged, “ for more than seven years,” and “for said term of seven years” had been kept open and,m repair by the petitioner. The petition as amended was then demurred to upon all the grounds of the original demurrer, and upon this additional ground, that the petition, as amended, did not allege that the land over which the right of way was claimed was improved land. The ordinary sustained the demurrer and dismissed the petition. The petitioner carried the case, by certiorari, to the superior court, where the judgment of the ordinary was sustained. The bill of exceptions before us alleges error in this judgment of the superior court.
Was the petition defective in not alleging that the land over which the way was claimed was improved land ? The ground of the demurrer raising this question was not good against the original petition, but, in our opinion, it pointed out a fatal defect in the petition as it stood after 'it was amended. It will be observed that the amendment, instead of simply adding additional para
Judgment affirmed.