Hickman v. Cornwell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Park. Jasper superior court. February 15, 1915. The petition of Mrs. Mary O. Hickman and Mrs. Lula Hickman Atwood alleged substantially as follows: They are the owners of and claim title to a certain tract of land in the city of Monticello, containing fifteen acres, which was conveyed by deed from O. G-. Eoberts to Mary C. Hickman and children. Also two and one half acres conveyed by deed from Mrs. D. E. Glover to Mary C. Hickman.
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Park. Jasper superior court. February 15, 1915. The petition of Mrs. Mary O. Hickman and Mrs. Lula Hickman Atwood alleged substantially as follows: They are the owners of and claim title to a certain tract of land in the city of Monticello, containing fifteen acres, which was conveyed by deed from O. G-. Eoberts to Mary C. Hickman and children. Also two and one half acres conveyed by deed from Mrs. D. E. Glover to Mary C. Hickman. Some time prior to December 20, 1907, H. W. Hickman, husband of Mary O. Hickman, and father of Lula Hickman Atwood, bought of J. L.…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) H. W. Hickman bought certain property from the assistant cashier of the Jasper County Bank, and Mrs. Mary A. Hickman, his wife, gave the bank a note and mortgage for the debt. The deed attacked was given by the plaintiffs, Mrs. Mary Hickman and her daughter, Mrs. Atwood, to Cornwell, the assistant cashier of the bank, to pay off the bank. The petition does not say so in terms, but in effect that the purchase-money paid by Cornwell to Mrs. Hickman and her daughter was to be applied to the debt due the bank. That can have no application at all to the…
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