Burnett v. Holroyd

BENHAM, Justice.

A year after his estranged wife1 died leaving all her real and personal property to her children from a previous marriage, appellant Thomas L. Burnett, Sr., filed a petition to quiet title to four *471parcels of land in Jackson County, Georgia, seeking to have the trial court exercise its equitable jurisdiction and impose an implied trust on the tracts. Mr. Burnett and his late wife were the title holders in deeds to three of the parcels (95 acres, 14 acres, and 152 acres), and Mrs. Burnett was the title holder in the deed to the fourth (20 acres). Appellees, the executrix and…