Fergerson v. Fergerson
Talbot County Superior Court, Ga.
Bill for Discovery, Relief and Injunction. Demurrer. A Court of Chancery will not correct errors of Law ; or in other words, where the only ground on which relief is asked, is an ignorance of the Law, a Court of Equity will not interfere. This bill states that the complainant, Martha II. Fergerson, is the wife, and the other complainants the minor children of the respondent, James if.
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Bill for Discovery, Relief and Injunction. Demurrer. A Court of Chancery will not correct errors of Law ; or in other words, where the only ground on which relief is asked, is an ignorance of the Law, a Court of Equity will not interfere. This bill states that the complainant, Martha II. Fergerson, is the wife, and the other complainants the minor children of the respondent, James if. Ferguson — that on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, the respondent, Fergerson, was in a condition of pecuniary insolvency, and without the means of providing for the wants and…
1Opinion of the Court
The bill further states, that the said Richard intended by said deed of conveyance to settle the property mentioned therein, upon the said Martha, and to her separate and exclusive use, and to debar the said James, and his creditors, from the same — that through ignorance of the parties as to the proper mode of framing the instrument so as to create, and settle a separate estate on the said Martha, the wife of said James Fergerson, and the want of knowledge that the said deed, as executed, would convey to the said Fergerson the interest designed for his wife exclusively, the deed appears in…
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