Robson v. Jones
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, from Calhoun county. Tried before Judge Allen, at November Term, 1858. This was a bill in equity, filed by Elizabeth Jones, against Jesse Robson. The bill states that plaintiff first intermarried with Drury Stokes, by whom she had one child, Georgia Ann Stokes, the wife of defendant.
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In Equity, from Calhoun county. Tried before Judge Allen, at November Term, 1858. This was a bill in equity, filed by Elizabeth Jones, against Jesse Robson. The bill states that plaintiff first intermarried with Drury Stokes, by whom she had one child, Georgia Ann Stokes, the wife of defendant. After the decease of Stokes, plaintiff married James Jones, who became the guardian of her infant daughter ; that her first husband left a considerable estate, and by agreement before marriage with Jones he was not to use any part of Stokes’s estate, but the whole was to be kept together undivided in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin J.
delivering the opinion.
We see nothing illegal in the contract setup, and sought to be enforced in the bill, between Mrs. Jones and Robson.
The agreement between Mrs. Jones and her husband, that he would keep the property together, which came into his hand, from the estate of her former husband, Drury Stokes, until her daughter Georgia Ann Stokes came of age, and then settle his wife’s part upon her was a valid contract, and if Mr. Jones, as husband, failed to reduce his wife’s share of this property to possession, as we think he did during his lifetime, the right to the…
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