Cain v. Farmer
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Practice in Superior Court. Decrees. Judgments. Statute of Limitations. Parties. Attorney and Client. Homestead. Before Judge Carswell. Jefferson Superior Court.
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Equity. Practice in Superior Court. Decrees. Judgments. Statute of Limitations. Parties. Attorney and Client. Homestead. Before Judge Carswell. Jefferson Superior Court. May Term, 1884. On a bill filed by Farmer, as administrator of Hannah, deceased, against Owens et al., in respect to certain land, which Owens had contracted to buy,- and for an account, etc., the following decree was rendered: “We, the jury, find and decree that execution issue in favor of Henry J. Farmer, administrator of the estate of James F. Hannah, against Enoch H. Owens, for the purchase money of the land setforth in…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
A decree that Farmer, administrator de bonis non of Hannah, recover of Owens twenty-four hundred and odd dollars, purchase money for a tract of land bought by Owens at administrator’s sale, and subjecting the land to the payment, with directions that part of the fund be applied to plaintiffs in error as counsel, etc., was rendered in 1870. Owens delivered up the land to the administrator, but immediately, as next friend of the minor children of Plannah, obtained for them a homestead on the land, which pre-. eluded the administrator from selling it and paying plaintiffs…
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