Citation Numbers: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 10
Judges: Hall
Filed Date: 7/1/1885
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 9/8/2022
1. Where one holding a title by deed from a former owner brought ejectment against the tenant in possession of land, the latter could not, by equitable plea, claim from the plaintiff a specific performance of a parol contract alleged to have been made between the defendant and the person from whom the plaintiff bought, and of which .it was averred the plaintiff had notice. Especially could not this be done without making the plaintiff’s feoffor a party. 18 Ga., 668.
2. A parol contract by which it was agreed that, ií a man and his
3. Nor, under such circumstances, would the original owner of the land or one who purchased from him with notice, b« compelled to pay for improvements erected thereon by the occupant. It did not appear that he was able to pay for the land or that he ever demanded a deed prior to its sale. He held as a tenant of the original owner, and became a tenant of the purchaser; and he could neither render the latter liable for improvements not assented to by the landlord, nor could he change the relation of landlord and tenant except by consent of his landlord* Code 2284, 2283.
Judgment affirmed.