Legal Opinion

Cook v. McGarrity

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 22, 1925No. 4631PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Russell, 0. J.

When this ease was before the Supreme Court on a former occasion (McGarrity v. Cook, 154 Ga. 311, 114 S. E. 213), the judgment of the trial court denying the defendants a new trial was reversed, this court holding: “If an infant executes a deed he may, after attaining majority, affirm it by acts which reasonably imply an affirmance, and after such affirmance he will be estopped from avoiding the deed on the ground of infancy at the date of its execution. Under the pleadings and the evidence it was erroneous to fail to charge the principle just stated, and to charge in such…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. McGarrity v. CookSupreme Court of Georgia · 1922

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Kytle v. KytleSupreme Court of Georgia · 1935
  2. Turner v. LittleCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1944
  3. Floyd v. RimesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1929

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