Miles & Co. v. Peabody
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Administrators and executors. Estates. Wills. Husband and wife. Contracts. Before Judge Crawford. Muscogee Superior Court.
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Equity. Administrators and executors. Estates. Wills. Husband and wife. Contracts. Before Judge Crawford. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1879. John R. Dawson died testate in 1859. His will provided, among other things, that certain described property should be kept together, except so far as was necessary to divide it for the purposes named ; that his wife and children should be amply and liberally supported out of the proceeds and profits thereof, and the children educated; that as each child should become of age or marry, the executor should give him or her such portion of the estate as…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Justice.
McGough, as administrator de bonis non with the will annexed on the estate of John R. Dawson, brought a bill for direction and distribution against the heirs and creditors of the estate of decedent, and the creditors of one of the heirs, John F. Dawson, who had some of them served process of attachment by garnishing .the administrator, John F. Dawson being a non-resident of the state of Georgia. The entire case, fact and law, was submitted to the chancellor without a jury by consent, he made a full decree thereon, and to that decree Mary Johnson, as one of' the creditors of…
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