Milliken v. Kennedy

• Citation: 13 S.E. 635,87 Ga. 463
• Parties: Milliken et al. v. Kennedy.
• Decision Date: 08 July 1891
• Court: Supreme Court of Georgia

13 S.E. 635

87 Ga. 463

Milliken et al. v. Kennedy.

Supreme Court of Georgia

July 8, 1891

Syllabus by the Court.

Title to land acquired by prescription is not lost by ceasing to hold actual possession for 12 months or more, the animus revertendi existing.

Error from superior court, Worth county; B. B. Bower, Judge.

Title to land acquired by prescription is not lost by ceasing to hold actual possession for 12 months or more, if the animus revertendi existed.

D. H. Pope, for plaintiff in error

W. A. Harris, Richd. Hobbs, and Harrison & Peeples, for defendants in error.

Judgment affirmed.

Lumpkin, J., not presiding.