Adams v. Guerard
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Chatham Superior Court. Before Judge Fleming, June Term, 1859, This was a bill in equity, by Richard W. Adams, against Emily B. Guerard, and others, devisees and heirs at law of Robert G. Guerard, deceased, praying for a discovery, relief, and account.
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In Equity, in Chatham Superior Court. Before Judge Fleming, June Term, 1859, This was a bill in equity, by Richard W. Adams, against Emily B. Guerard, and others, devisees and heirs at law of Robert G. Guerard, deceased, praying for a discovery, relief, and account. The bill states, that on the 30th January, 1840, in contemplation of a marriage, about to be solemnized between complainant and Mary Emma Guerard, a marriage settlement was executed by and between them, and one Robert G. Guerard as trustee, by which certain real and personal property in which the said Mary Emma had a vested estate…
1Opinion of the Court
— Stephens J.
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The marriage settlement of 1805, between Elizabeth Haist and Peter Guerard, conveyed the entire legal estate in the real and personal property, to Dr. Parker, the trustee, and then declared a trust in favor of the husband and wife during the life of the longest liver of them, with remainder to their children, without using words either expressly confining the remainder to a life estate in the children, or expressly declaring it to be an estate of inheritance in them. It was contended that this settlement having been executed before our…
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