Blacker v. Dunlop
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Eulton superior court. March term, 1893. The petition was brought on June 29, 1886, by Mary W. Blacker for herself and her three minor children, against her husband Charles B. Blacker, Mrs. Blankenship, his daughterly a former marriage, and H. C., Dunlop, to recover possession of seven acres of land with, mesne profits.
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Eulton superior court. March term, 1893. The petition was brought on June 29, 1886, by Mary W. Blacker for herself and her three minor children, against her husband Charles B. Blacker, Mrs. Blankenship, his daughterly a former marriage, and H. C., Dunlop, to recover possession of seven acres of land with, mesne profits. This land is part of 13.77 acres conveyed to Blacker and Martin on April 5, 1873. In October of that year, on the application of Blacker’s first wife, Mary M. Blacker, a homestead was set apart “ on or out of one undivided…
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
It appears from tfie record that in 1873, a homestead in certain property, including the land in dispute, was set apart by the ordinary of Eulton county upon the application of Mrs. Mary M. Blacker, the. first wife of Charles B. Blacker. On the trial of the present case the record of the homestead proceedings was admitted in evidence by the court below, over the objection of defendant that the homestead was invalid because the application *821did not show out of whose property the exemption was sought; and to this ruling the defendant excepted. The application, it is true, does…
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