133 Ga. 546 | Ga. | 1909
B. J. Jones, as agent for John M. Gilly, made affidavit before a justice of the peace to evict J. T. Williams as a tenant holding over. The premises were described in the affidavit as being “the following described real estate situate in said county, whereof John M. Gilly is owner, to'wit, in the 17th dist. and fourth section of Polk county, Ga., it being parts of land lots Nos. Ill and 112 in said dist. and section, more fully described in deed from Mrs. S. L. Ereeman to J. E. Pennington, being same land as described in said deed. Said J. T. Williams rented said real estate for the year 1905, ending Dec. 31st, 1905, but he continues to hold possession thereof over and beyond the term for which the same was
An affidavit to obtain a warrant to dispossess a tenant holding over should be sufficiently definite and certain in the description of the land to enable the sheriff to identify the premises. Vaughn v. Vaughn, 111 Ga. 807 (35 S. E. 650). It is not necessary, however, that the identification be practicable from merely reading the papers and looking at the premises, if such descriptive fact or facts be specified which will guide the officer in making enquiry and serve as a mark of connection between the process and the property: Vaughn v. King, 60 Ga. 523. A description of the premises by a known name is sufficient; thus where the premises were described as'“a lot in the county of Quitman and village of Georgetown, known as the Oatis place,” and without specifying the number of acres and the metes and bounds of the lot, or the street on which it was located, the description was held to be sufficient: Oatis v. Brown, 59 Ga. 711. The premises are sufficiently identified by an allegation that they are in the possession of a certain occupant: Longwoi-thy v. Featherston, 65 Ga. 165. A description of the premises, in a proceeding to dispossess a tenant, as “a house and lot at Bast Point, in said County and State, being the place where J. D. Thompson [the tenant] now resides,” has been held sufficient: Thompson v. Chapman, 57 Ga. 16. It has been held that a levy which described the property levied on by reference to a record
Judgment affirmed.