Rome Land Co. v. Eastman
Supreme Court of Georgia
Guardian and ward. Guardian’s sales. Public policy. Before Judge Maddox. Eloyd superior court. September term, 1887. Florence W. Eastman, for herself, and her husband, E. N Eastman, as next friend of their four minor children, brought their bill against W. P. Simpson, alleging as folows: Florence W. was the owner for life, and the four children owners in remainder, of a certain tract of land in Floyd county.
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Guardian and ward. Guardian’s sales. Public policy. Before Judge Maddox. Eloyd superior court. September term, 1887. Florence W. Eastman, for herself, and her husband, E. N Eastman, as next friend of their four minor children, brought their bill against W. P. Simpson, alleging as folows: Florence W. was the owner for life, and the four children owners in remainder, of a certain tract of land in Floyd county. Being so seized and desiring to make a sale of it, Eastman made, on March 23,1887, an agreement for its sale to Simpson, and he agreed to purchase it for $3,500, $2,500 to be paid when…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
John W. H. Underwood, the father of Mrs. Florence W. Eastman, made a deed by which, in consideration of “ love and affection for his said daughter, and her children or descendants of her children living at her death,” he conveyed certain land “ unto said Florence W. Eastman and her children born and to be born, and their heirs and *690assigns.” Eastman, the husband of Mrs. Florence W. Eastman, made a contract with one Simpson, agent of the Rome Land Company, in which, on behalf of his wife and as next friend for his children, the children of Mrs. Eastman, he agreed to sell this…
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