Lucas v. Parsons
Supreme Court of Georgia
Apeal from Ordinary, granting letters of administration pendente lite, in Monroe Superior Court. Tried before Judge Cabiness, at February Term, 1857. Littleberry Lucas, an old man about seventy years of age, residing in the county of Crawford, and owning a very large estate, was, after inquisition, declared and adjudged by the Ordinary of said county, a lunatic, at July Term, 1854; and his son Cincinnatus, upon whose petition the commission of lunacy issued, ivas appointed…
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Apeal from Ordinary, granting letters of administration pendente lite, in Monroe Superior Court. Tried before Judge Cabiness, at February Term, 1857. Littleberry Lucas, an old man about seventy years of age, residing in the county of Crawford, and owning a very large estate, was, after inquisition, declared and adjudged by the Ordinary of said county, a lunatic, at July Term, 1854; and his son Cincinnatus, upon whose petition the commission of lunacy issued, ivas appointed his guardian. The family of said lunatic consisted of his wife, Peggy Lucas, and three children ; the said Cincinnatus,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Benning, J.
delivering the opinion.
Littleberry Lucas died leaving a writing which was offered for probate, as his will, in the Court of Ordinary of Mon • roe county, by Peggy Lucas his widow, and James M. Parsons, one of his sons-indaw. His son, Cincinnatus M. Lucas, filed a caveat to the admission of the writing to record, as a will. Thereupon, Peggy Lucas and James M. Parsons , applied for letters of administration, pendente lite. To this application, Cincinnatus M. Lucas filed four objections, These were overruled by the Court of Ordinary; and he appealed to the Superior…
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