Ansley v. Ansley

1. A parol obligation by a person to adopt the child of another as his own, accompanied by a virtual though not a statutory ■ adoption, and acted upon by all parties concerned for many years and during the obligor’s life, may be enforced in equity upon the death of the obligor, by decreeing the child entitled as a child to the property of the obligor, undisposed of by will. Civil Code, § 3016; Crawford v. Wilson, 139 Ga. 654 (78 S. E. 30, 44 L. R. A. (N. S.) 773); Pair v. Pair, 147 Ga. 754 (95 S. E. 295); Richardson v. Cade, 150 Ga. 535, 538 (104 S. E. 207). The rule above announced is…