Harper v. Parks
Supreme Court of Georgia
Witness. Evidence. Practice in the Superior Court. Advancements. Contracts. Before Judge Simmons. Pike Superior Court. April Term, 1879. Mrs. Parks brought trover against Harper to recover a piano. Plaintiff claimed under, a written contract between her and the deceased wife of-, defendant, who was also the daughter of plaintiff.
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Witness. Evidence. Practice in the Superior Court. Advancements. Contracts. Before Judge Simmons. Pike Superior Court. April Term, 1879. Mrs. Parks brought trover against Harper to recover a piano. Plaintiff claimed under, a written contract between her and the deceased wife of-, defendant, who was also the daughter of plaintiff. This contract, which is set out in the decision, gave the piano to- deceased for life with reversion to plaintiff: Defendant insisted that his wife did no-t sign this contract, and also that plaintiff had previously given the piano absolutely to his wife as an…
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was an action of trover brought by the plaintiff in the court below against the defendant, to recover ihe possession of a piano. - On the trial of the case the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. A motion was made for a new trial on the several grounds therein stated, which was overruled, and the defendant excepted.
It appears from the evidence in the record, that on the 3d day of May, 1871, the plaintiff, Carrie Parks, and her daughter, Emma A. Harper, the wife of defendant, executed the following instrument in writing under their hands and seals:
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