Deans v. Deans

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In the last appearance of this case before the Supreme Court (Deans v. Deans, 166 Ga. 555, 144 S. E. 116) the judgment' of the superior court was reversed because the court refused to charge the jury, as duly requested in writing, in the language of the Civil Code, § 3832. This court held that' as the testator was a father leaving one child but no wife, and since he had devised his entire estate (except a fund to be used in preserving his cemetery lot) to his mother, brothers, and sisters, and one person not related to him, his entire estate had been…