Ganahl

The plaintiffs claim title to the lot of land in controversy as the heirs at law of Henry Ganahl, who died intestate, in the state of Georgia, on the twelfth day of May, 1855. That whatever rights, if any, the plaintiffs Maria Ann and Ann Elizabeth Ganahl acquired in the premises as such *416 heirs at law became barred by the provisions of the statute of limitations prior to the commencement of this action, admits of no question. The remaining plaintiff, Henry Gordon Ganahl, was born April 11, 1855. Sections 25 and 26 of the Civil Code of this state provide:

Under the rule prescribed by the section last quoted, Henry Gordon Ganahl became of age the first minute of the eleventh day of April, 1876, and by virtue of section 328 of the Code of Civil Procedure he was entitled to commence an action for the recovery of whatever interest he had in the land within the period of five years thereafter, but not after the expiration of that period. In computing the period of five years we must include the eleventh day of April, 1876, because, as the plaintiff in question attained his majority the first minute of that day, he had the whole of the day in which to sue; and computing that as the…