Ferrill v. Perryman
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity. In Marion Superior Court. Demurrer decided by Judge Wobbill. March Term, 1861. The plaintiffs in error, as executors of Mary C. Perryman, deceased, filed their bill against tbe defendant. It made the following case: Mrs. Perryman, before her intermarriage with the defendant, was Mary C. Wilkinson.
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In Equity. In Marion Superior Court. Demurrer decided by Judge Wobbill. March Term, 1861. The plaintiffs in error, as executors of Mary C. Perryman, deceased, filed their bill against tbe defendant. It made the following case: Mrs. Perryman, before her intermarriage with the defendant, was Mary C. Wilkinson. She had in her possession, in her own right, besides certain negroes not claimed in this suit, six promissory notes and one account on John Wilkinson, amounting to over $7,000, a carriage and horses worth $700, and household and kitchen furniture worth $500. This was her condition on the…
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, C. J.
*580The real conflict in this case is, whether the choses in action which belonged to Mrs. Wilkinson at the time of the intermarriage, were secured to her by the two deeds to which Mr. Perryman became a party, he being entitled to the use of the money only during his wife’s life time ?
These instruments,. copies of which are attached to the pleadings, are not very accurately or artistically drawn. Whether the want of perspicuity was intentional, as insinuated'by complainant’s solicitor, we know nothing. Upon the casual perusal of these documents, the reservation * of the marital rights of loth…
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