Legal Opinion

Causey v. White

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 12, 1915PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Complaint for land. Before Judge Edwards. Douglas superior court. September 18, 1913.

1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.

1. There was no error in allowing the amendment to the petition, and in refusing to dismiss the ease on motion in the nature of a general demurrer.

2. Where in 1848, before the passage of “the married woman’s law” in reference to her separate property, a deed was executed to a woman who (it may be gathered from the pleadings) had been married, before the deed was admissible in evidence as a basis for recovery by her administrator in a suit brought in 1911, after her death in 1879, there should have been some evidence to show that her husband’s marital rights did not attach, so that the title…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Oliver v. PowellSupreme Court of Georgia · 1902
  2. Castleberry v. ParrishSupreme Court of Georgia · 1910

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Rudulph v. WashingtonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1917
  2. Chamblee v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1946
  3. Holton v. MercerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1942
  4. Sharp v. AutrySupreme Court of Georgia · 1937
  5. Smith v. DuhartSupreme Court of Georgia · 1922

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