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202 Ga. 269

42 S.E.2d 639

Floyd v. Bell

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided April 19, 1947

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1947-04-19

Relies on Anderson v. Robinson

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Decided 1947-04-19

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Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1974

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Wyatt, Justice.

¶1 “A plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant’s title.” Code, § 33-101. Taken as a whole, the evidence adduced on the trial of this ejectment suit was too vague and indefinite to show title in the plaintiffs, by virtue of inheritance, through parties dying years ago; and the trial court did not err, at the conclusion of evidence offered by both sides, in directing a verdict for the defendant, who, according to the plaintiffs’ evidence, had been in possession of the premises for a long number of years prior to the institution of the suit. Anderson v. Robinson, 75 Ga. 375 (2).

¶2 Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.
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