Legal Opinion

Frizzell v. Reed

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided October 26, 1886PublishedCited by 32 opinions

Fraud. Insanity. Evidence. Witness. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton Superior Court. March Term, 1886. To the report contained in the decision, the following is added in connection with the fourth and fifth divisions thereof; One ground of defence was, that the suit was instituted and pressed without authority of the complainant, and in support of this ground the defendant introduced in evidence the following paper; “ Sarah C. Jones W. H. Frizzell.

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Fraud. Insanity. Evidence. Witness. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton Superior Court. March Term, 1886. To the report contained in the decision, the following is added in connection with the fourth and fifth divisions thereof; One ground of defence was, that the suit was instituted and pressed without authority of the complainant, and in support of this ground the defendant introduced in evidence the following paper; “ Sarah C. Jones W. H. Frizzell. No. 109. Superior Court, Spring Term, 1884. Equity. Bill for account and relief. “I, Sarah C. Jones, the person whose name is made to…

1Opinion of the Court

Blandford, Justice.

The bill in this case was exhibited by Mrs. Sarah C. Jones, then in life, but she having died pending the same, her children and only heirs at law, John and Anna (who had intermarried with Adair), were made parties by their guardian ad litem, John C. Reed, Esquire, and the case proceeded in their name against Frizzell, the plaintiff in error. The bill alleged that Sarah C. was living at Rome, Georgia, when her husband died; that Frizzell, her brother-in-law, who had married her sister, induced her to sell her property' and remove to Atlanta ; that she purchased a small…

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