O'Neal v. Brown
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice in Supreme Court. Deeds. Wills. Charge of Court. Before Judge Willis. Monroe Superior Court. February Adjourned Term, 1881. To the report contained in the decision it is only necessary to add that the sixth ground of the motion for a new trial was because the court charged as follows: • “If Spencer Sullivan made a deed to Mary E. Brown, and a deed to G. Z. Sullivan, and said to W. J. Brown that the deeds were in his drawer, and he desired him to get them and have…
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Practice in Supreme Court. Deeds. Wills. Charge of Court. Before Judge Willis. Monroe Superior Court. February Adjourned Term, 1881. To the report contained in the decision it is only necessary to add that the sixth ground of the motion for a new trial was because the court charged as follows: • “If Spencer Sullivan made a deed to Mary E. Brown, and a deed to G. Z. Sullivan, and said to W. J. Brown that the deeds were in his drawer, and he desired him to get them and have them recorded, and if he told Brown to enter upon and improve that portion conveyed to his wife, and told G. Z. Sullivan…
1Opinion of the Court
Crawford, Justice.
Mary E. Brown for herself and as next'friend of George Z. Sullivan, filed a bill in equity against Griffin O’Neal and James W. Sullivan, who were the executors of Spencer Sullivan, to recover two certain parcels of land which she claimed had been conveyed to them by the testator— their grandfather — and which lands the said executors were proceeding to sell as a part of his estate. The material allegations of the bill were that in August, 1878, thejr said grandfather executed deeds of gift to them by which he conveyed to the said Mary E. 160 acres of land, lot number 58, in…
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