Brantley v. Porter
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint. Before Judge Prior. City court of Hall county. November term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
1. Under a will whereby property was bequeathed and devised to a named person as trustee for daughters of the testator, with direction that it "shall be held in trust for them, my said daughters, for life respectively, and at their deaths shall pass to and become the absolute property of their children respectively,” the legal title passed to the trustee as to the life-estate only, and the remainders thus created were legal and not trust estates. Carswell v. Lovett, 80 Ga. 36; McDonald v. McCall, 91 Ga. 304; Baxter v. Wolfe, 93 Ga. 334; Fleming v. Hughes 99 Ga. 444; Allen v. Hughes, 106 Ga.…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Fleming v. HughesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1896
- Carswell v. LovettSupreme Court of Georgia · 1888
- Allen v. HughesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899
- Banks v. Sloat, Bussell & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1883
- Kile v. FlemingSupreme Court of Georgia · 1886
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