Tennell v. Ford
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, from Clay County. Decided by Judge Kiddoo, September Term, 1859. The plaintiff in error filed his bill, as the administrator of William P. Ford, deceased, against Ann.
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In Equity, from Clay County. Decided by Judge Kiddoo, September Term, 1859. The plaintiff in error filed his bill, as the administrator of William P. Ford, deceased, against Ann. A. Ford and Fleming Law, who intermarried with Calidonia Ford, daughter of Ann A. Ford, for a partition of property, real and personal, jointly held by the defendants and deceased, in his lifetime, as was alleged, and for an accounting by defendants to complainants for the share of deceased in said property and in the rents, issues and profits thereof in defendant’s hands. At the trial Term of the case, counsel for…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Stephens, J.,
delivering the owinion.
1. For the reasons given in the case of Burton vs. Black, decided during the present Term, we do not think that this will ci’eates an estate-tail in the children of the testator, and we think the limitations over in favor of the survivors are valid.
2. The only other question is, have the events happened on which those limitations are to take effect? We think that in the case of Albert, they have, and that in the case of William, whose administrator is suing, they have not. The share of each child is to go over to the survivors, if he dies…
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