Walton v. Ward
Supreme Court of Georgia
Injunction. Before Judge Walker. Lincoln superior court. October 29, 1913. L. H. Ward, B. F. Butler, and others filed their petition against Mrs. Mary J. Walton individually and as administratrix de bonis non of Leonard Sims, and Ann Elizabeth Sims, alleging as follows: Leonard Sims died in the year 1883, leaving a will by which he gave to Mrs. Mary J. Walton and her children 490 acres of land; the rest of his property, consisting of about 1,500 acres of land, besides…
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Injunction. Before Judge Walker. Lincoln superior court. October 29, 1913. L. H. Ward, B. F. Butler, and others filed their petition against Mrs. Mary J. Walton individually and as administratrix de bonis non of Leonard Sims, and Ann Elizabeth Sims, alleging as follows: Leonard Sims died in the year 1883, leaving a will by which he gave to Mrs. Mary J. Walton and her children 490 acres of land; the rest of his property, consisting of about 1,500 acres of land, besides personalty, he devised equally to his wife, Amanda Sims, and his children, Absalom G-. and Ann Elizabeth Sims, minors, but at…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) ■ The court did not err in granting the injunction complained of. No other court than one having equity jurisdiction could adequately dispose of all the interests involved. Whether or not the contention of the defendants is sound, that the deeds of Mrs. Sims conveying the land consisting of the tracts of 122 acres and 75 acres were inoperative as executor’s deeds, and that the deed of confirmation subsequently executed by Mrs. Amanda Sims and-her two children was also inoperative as to the children either as an actual conveyance or as estoppel, because of…
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