Moody v. Moody
Supreme Court of Georgia
Caveat to granting. administration, in Morgan Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hardeman, at September Term, 1859. This was ail application to the Court of Ordinary of Morgan county, by Thomas H. Moody, for letters of administration on the estate of John L. Moody, deceased, the father of applicant.
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Caveat to granting. administration, in Morgan Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hardeman, at September Term, 1859. This was ail application to the Court of Ordinary of Morgan county, by Thomas H. Moody, for letters of administration on the estate of John L. Moody, deceased, the father of applicant. William L. Moody, another and only other surviving son of intestate, filed a caveat to the granting said administration on the grounds, that the applicant claimed a large part of the estate of which deceased died possessed, and which claim was in conflict with his duties as administrator of said…
1Opinion of the Court
— Stephens J.
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
This is a contest between two brothers for administration on the estate of their father. William Moody, on the appeal trial, offered to show two facts, which he contended, disqualified, or tended to disqu alify his brother Thomas-one was, that Thomas had already received his full share of the estate by way of advancement, and the other was, that Thomas was setting up an adverse claim to the larger part of the property of which the father died possessed. The Judge, excluded the evidence, but we think it ought to have been admitted. It was…
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