Hardy v. Hardy
Supreme Court of Georgia
Claim. Before Judge Walker. Wilkes superior court. September 17, 1918. Mrs. Carrie Hardy, as administratrix of the estate of ber deceased husband, Ben. I. Hardy, who died intestate, advertised for sale certain land alleged to belong to the estate of the intestate. This land consisted of a single tract of one hundred acres.
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Claim. Before Judge Walker. Wilkes superior court. September 17, 1918. Mrs. Carrie Hardy, as administratrix of the estate of ber deceased husband, Ben. I. Hardy, who died intestate, advertised for sale certain land alleged to belong to the estate of the intestate. This land consisted of a single tract of one hundred acres. The plaintiffs in error, D. E. Hardy and four other children of the intestate, filed a claim to fifty -acres of the tract, specifically described in the claim affidavit. At the trial term of the court at which the case was heard the claimants filed what they termed “a full…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, P. J.
1. There are several portions of the charge excepted to in various grounds of the motion for a new trial, but they are without merit. In substance, the portions of the charge complained of instructed the jury that if the money belonging *373to the claimants in the case was invested in the land which they claimed, the jury should find for the claimants; but unless it did appear from the evidence that the money which B. I. Hardy held as guardian for his children was invested in this land, their finding should be in favor of the estate of B. I. Hardy. While some of the language employed in the…
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