Everroad v. Dickson Planing Mill Co.

Stephens, J. 1. A plaintiff in trover must recover on his own title and not on a lack of title in the defendant. Where it appears that the title was originally in the plaintiff and would have continued in him but for a sale by him to one from whom the defendant claims title, the plaintiff may, in establishing his own title, show an adjudication voiding the sale and re-establishing his title, had in a proceeding between him as an intervening claimant and his vendee in a bankruptcy proceeding, which had been instituted against the vendee, which intervention was filed and adjudication had after the defendant had made his alleged purchase under which he claims title from the plaintiff’s vendee; and it will not be necessary for the plaintiff to show that the defendant was a party to such intervention proceedings when the evidence fails to establish any facts which will warrant the inference that the defendant acquired any title from the plaintiff’s vendee. 2. Although the property was delivered by the plaintiff’s vendee to the defendant under a contract of sale between them, by the terms of which the defendant was, as a condition to the sale, to cause promissory notes to be executed to the plaintiff’s vendee for the payment of the purchase-money, no title passed into the defendant, because of his failure to execute the notes. Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co. v. Irish American Dime-Savings Bank, 105 Ga. 57 (31 S. E. 48). 3. Applying the above principle of law to the undisputed facts as shown by the evidence, a verdict for the plaintiff was properly directed. Judgment affirmed. Jenkins, P. J., and Sill, J., concur. ■ Burress & Dillard, for plaintiff in error. Smith, Hammond & Smith, contra.