Coffey v. Cobb
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Fite. Murray superior court. August 27, 1914. - This suit was originally brought to compel specific performance of an alleged parol gift of land from a father to his daughter (the plaintiff in this ease), the daughter having made valuable improvements thereon.
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Fite. Murray superior court. August 27, 1914. - This suit was originally brought to compel specific performance of an alleged parol gift of land from a father to his daughter (the plaintiff in this ease), the daughter having made valuable improvements thereon. When the case was tried in the superior court the second time, the plaintiff amended her petition by alleging: “Before petitioner went into possession of the land, to wit, in the year 1907, her said father, Webster B. Coffey, contracted with your petitioner that she should have five acres of land near…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) This is the second appearance of this case in this court. Coffey v. Cobb, 140 Ga. 661 (79 S. E. 568). When the ease was here before, in delivering the opinion of the court reversing the judgment of the court below,' Mr. Justice Beck said: “As we have held above, the theory of the' plaintiff, that at the time of her going into possession of certain land pointed out to her by her father in 1907 this possession was taken under such an agreement as would make a parol gift of the land, is untenable in view of the evidence, no certain boundaries or any…
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