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Call Now: 904-383-7448Any joint tenant, tenant in common, or other person having a part interest in lands or tenements may bring an action of ejectment for the recovery of such lands or tenements or an action for damages for injury thereto without joining with him any other person as plaintiff. The judgment in such a case shall not affect the rights of those interested in such lands or tenements who are not parties to the action.
(Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 227, § 1; Code 1863, § 3271; Code 1868, § 3282; Code 1873, § 3358; Code 1882, § 3358; Civil Code 1895, § 4999; Civil Code 1910, § 5577; Code 1933, § 33-103.)
- O.C.G.A. § 44-11-3, which is an application of O.C.G.A. § 9-2-23 permitting tenants in common to sue severally, limits the amount of recovery. Sanford v. Sanford, 58 Ga. 259 (1877); Wilson v. Chandler, 60 Ga. 129 (1878).
- A tenant in common can recover in equity the tenant's interest in property when a cotenant has taken more than that tenant's share of the profits or has committed waste, but the remedy is partition, not ouster of tenant in common from the property. Thompson v. Sanders, 113 Ga. 1024, 39 S.E. 419 (1901).
Joint tenant may not sue another joint tenant absent disclaimer of title. Lawton v. Adams, 29 Ga. 273, 74 Am. Dec. 59 (1859).
- A tenant in common or other person having part interest in land may enjoin the cutting of timber by third parties without joining the other tenants as plaintiffs. Camp v. Garbutt Lumber Co., 129 Ga. 411, 58 S.E. 870 (1907); Harrell v. Rose Bros. & Co., 157 Ga. 640, 122 S.E. 240 (1924).
- If a person dies while in possession of land under a bona fide claim of right thereto, such possession at the time of death is prima facie evidence of title in the deceased that will support an action of complaint for land and mesne profit instituted by the administrator of such deceased person against a third person, who after the death of the intestate entered possession adversely and not under a better title. Segars v. Crump, 177 Ga. 665, 170 S.E. 785 (1933).
Cited in Colquitt v. Howard, 11 Ga. 556 (1852); Butler v. Prudden, 182 Ga. 189, 185 S.E. 102 (1936); Sharp v. Autry, 183 Ga. 282, 188 S.E. 354 (1936); Aycock v. Williams, 185 Ga. 585, 196 S.E. 54 (1938); Crawford v. Taliaferro, 187 Ga. 381, 200 S.E. 776 (1938); Yerbey v. Chandler, 194 Ga. 263, 21 S.E.2d 636 (1942); Roberts v. Hill, 78 Ga. App. 264, 50 S.E.2d 706 (1948); Pugh v. Moore, 207 Ga. 453, 62 S.E.2d 153 (1950); Kitchens v. Jefferson County, 85 Ga. App. 902, 70 S.E.2d 527 (1952); Bowdoin v. Malone, 287 F.2d 282 (5th Cir. 1961).
- 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Ejectment, § 26.
- 28 C.J.S., Ejectment, § 50.
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