Burge v. Burge
Supreme Court of Georgia
Reformation of Contracts. Before E. N. Broyles Esq., Judge pro hac vice. Polk Superior Court. February Term, 1871. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, Judge.
This was a bill filed by the defendant in error, as the administrator of Dalton Burge, against the plaintiff in error, as the widow of the intestate, and John W. McGhee and his wife, Susan Z. McGhee, the son-in-law and daughter of the intestate, the daughter being also the only child by a former marriage. The widow had also been twice married, and had children by her first marriage. There was no child by the marriage of intestate with his last wife.
The subject matter of controversy was the property of intestate, his widow claiming one-half as an heir-at-law, his daughter and…
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