Williams v. Adams
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action on bond. Before Judge Hunt. Hpson superior court. May term, 1893. Tbe suit was on tbe bond of J. W. Adams, administrator witb the will annexed of James Adams, who died in 1873, leaving a will, whereby he gave bis wife Eliza a life-interest in a fractional lot of land in Hpson county, and the bridge across tbe Flint river witb an acre of land at each end, and after her death all to be sold by bis administrator and the proceeds divided as thereafter directed in tbe…
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Action on bond. Before Judge Hunt. Hpson superior court. May term, 1893. Tbe suit was on tbe bond of J. W. Adams, administrator witb the will annexed of James Adams, who died in 1873, leaving a will, whereby he gave bis wife Eliza a life-interest in a fractional lot of land in Hpson county, and the bridge across tbe Flint river witb an acre of land at each end, and after her death all to be sold by bis administrator and the proceeds divided as thereafter directed in tbe will, also a child’s part of his personal property; to his daughter Louisa Martin and her children a lot of land in Hpson…
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
This was a somewhat complicated ease, and the questions brought to this court for review arose upon the-trial of exceptions to an auditor’s report. The material facts are stated by the reporter. The first and second head-notes indicate the controlling points in the case, upon which our, judgment of reversal is based. In the third and fourth head-notes, we have formulated ques*275tions which may arise oil the next hearing, but which are not now decided.
1. The court, among other things, instructed the jury that if they sustained the auditor’s report in full, the form of their…
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