Hoard v. Maddox

Jenkins, Chief Justice.

1. On the trial of a claim case involving the bona fides of a deed of conveyance, it is improper to instruct the jury that “transactions between near relatives are to be scanned with care and scrutinized closely, and slight evidence of fraud shown between them may be sufficient to set the transaction aside,” in the absence of qualification that this rule does not apply unless .there is proof otherwise suggesting fraud. McCallie v. McCallie, 192 Ga. 699, 701 (16 S. E. 2d, 562). See also Elge v. Calhoun National Bank, 155 Ga. 821 (118 S. E. 359). The impropriety in the…