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51 Ga. App. 34

Harn v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided March 26, 1935

Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1935-03-26

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1983

3 state decisions

Relies on Wolff v. Sampson · 6 Ga. App. 114 - Pendley Brick Co. v. Hardwick & Co.

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Decided 1935-03-26

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Broyi.es, C. J.

¶11. “‘Whether an article of personalty connected with or attached to realty becomes a part of the realty, and therefore such a fixture that it can not be removed therefrom, depends upon the circumstances under which the article was placed upon the realty, the uses to which it is adapted, and the parties who are at issue as to whether such an article is realty or detachable personalty.’ Wolff v. Sampson, 123 Ga. 402 (51 S. E. 335). Where it is doubtful, under all the circumstances, whether the article in question is personalty or is a fixture, the doubt is to be solved by the jury.” Pendley Co. v. Hardwick, 6 Ga. App. 114 (64 S. E. 664).

¶22. Under the foregoing ruling the jury in the instant case was authorized to find, from the evidence, that the sawmill in question was personalty, and not a part of the realty, and that the parts of the sawmill (left on the land of the mother of the plaintiff in error) remained the property *35of the owners of the sawmill; and that the plaintiff in error, in removing certain pieces of the machinery of the mill and converting them to his own use was guilty of larceny as charged.

Decided March 26, 1935.0. C. Darsey, for plaintiff in error.W. F. Mills, solicitor, contra.

¶33. The special grounds of the motion for a new trial show no cause for a reversal of the judgment.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

MacIntyre and Guerry, JJ., concw.
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