McKinney v. Burns
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Eloyd Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hammond, at the July Term, i860. This was a bill in equity, -filed by Henry Burns and his wife, Cynthia Bums, formerly Cynthia McKinney, and their minor children, suing by the said Henry Burns, as their father and next friend, against John McKinney and Charles McKinney, administrators of Samuel McKinney, deceased.
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In Equity, in Eloyd Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hammond, at the July Term, i860. This was a bill in equity, -filed by Henry Burns and his wife, Cynthia Bums, formerly Cynthia McKinney, and their minor children, suing by the said Henry Burns, as their father and next friend, against John McKinney and Charles McKinney, administrators of Samuel McKinney, deceased. The bill alleges: That, in the year 1849, Henry Burns purchased and paid for, out of his own funds, the undivided half of lot of land number 96, in the fifth district of the fourth section of originally Cherokee, now Eloyd…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.,
delivering the opinion.
Bums, in 1836, placed in the hands of McKinney, his father-in-law, $150.00, to purchase a negro to be settled upon Burns’ wife and children — the daughter and grandchildren of McKinney.
In 1849, Burns bought the one-half of a lot of land, and needing money, he called upon McKinney for the $150.00 which he had never invested in a negro, as he promised to do. McKinney made some effort to raise the $150.00. He proposed to Burns that if he would make him a deed to the land which he, Burns, and his family, were living on, he could convey the same in…
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