Lang v. Hopkins
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity in Camden Súperior Court. Tried before Judge H. R. Jackson, April Term, 1851. • This bill was filed by Elizabeth H Hopkins and Susan Anna Hopkins, the widow and child of William T. Hopkins, deceased, against the executors of his will, to recover a “ reasonable support” under the Act of 1838. See Vol.IX. 361. It appeared upon the trial that the estate was a large one, the annual income amounting to f 12,000; that the complainants were all the family left by…
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In Equity in Camden Súperior Court. Tried before Judge H. R. Jackson, April Term, 1851. • This bill was filed by Elizabeth H Hopkins and Susan Anna Hopkins, the widow and child of William T. Hopkins, deceased, against the executors of his will, to recover a “ reasonable support” under the Act of 1838. See Vol.IX. 361. It appeared upon the trial that the estate was a large one, the annual income amounting to f 12,000; that the complainants were all the family left by testator, and that Susan Anna Hopkins, the daughter, was one of the residuary legatees. The other residuary legatee was a…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
This cause came on to be heard upon the bill, answer, exhibits and replication, admissions and proofs, it being a suit *40brought by the complainants, who were the widow and only child of William T. Hopkins, deceased, against the defendants, who were the executors of William T. Hopkins, deceased, (the said William T. having departed this life in the month of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight,) for a reasonable support.and maintenance of said widow and child for the twelve months immediately succeeding the death of the…
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