Mayer v. Hover
Supreme Court of Georgia
"Wills. Jurisdiction. Partition. Decrees. Before Judge Adams. Chatham superior court. December term, 1887. The bill in question in this case was filed by S. A. Mayer and his wife, Mary A. C. Mayer, and by S. A. Mayer as next friend of Julia C. PI. Mayer, alleged in the bill to be the only child of himself and his said wife, and as next friend of the only child of L. L. Hover, defendant in the bill.
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"Wills. Jurisdiction. Partition. Decrees. Before Judge Adams. Chatham superior court. December term, 1887. The bill in question in this case was filed by S. A. Mayer and his wife, Mary A. C. Mayer, and by S. A. Mayer as next friend of Julia C. PI. Mayer, alleged in the bill to be the only child of himself and his said wife, and as next friend of the only child of L. L. Hover, defendant in the bill. The bill alleged, among other things, that the only other child of S. A. and Mary A. C. Mayer, to wit, Margaret Mayer, had died about months before the filing of the bill and after the death of…
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
David ~W. Mayer brought his action of ejectment in the superior court of Chatham county for certain lots of land. Hover, the defendant, filed a special plea, as follows :
“ And the said defendant, for a further plea in this behalf, says that the said plaintiff ought not to have and maintain his aforesaid action against him, because, he says that the said plaintiff hath no title to the land and premises in the said plaintiff’s declaration set forth and described; in this, that the said land and premises were a portion 'of the property devised by John Hover, by his last will and…
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