Dunn v. Bryan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Teuants-in-common. Decided by Judge Flemming. Chatham county. Chambers. March, 1868. This case is as follows: Plarriet Bryan averred that in 1835, John Waters, her father, departed this life, leaving a will, with a codicil attached, and that George W. Anderson, William W. Gordon and William IT. Cuyler were appointed therein as his executors.
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Equity. Teuants-in-common. Decided by Judge Flemming. Chatham county. Chambers. March, 1868. This case is as follows: Plarriet Bryan averred that in 1835, John Waters, her father, departed this life, leaving a will, with a codicil attached, and that George W. Anderson, William W. Gordon and William IT. Cuyler were appointed therein as his executors. By the fourth item of said will, the said testator devised the two (2) lots of land, numbers five and six, Eyles Tything, Heathcote Ward, and also lot number ten, First Tything, Reynolds’ Ward, all in the city of Savannah, said county of Chatham,…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, C. J.
Upon the argument of this case, counsel for plaintiff in error, as we understood them, abandoned the assignments of error, except as to the eleventh item of the will of John Waters. And, indeed, we think the case of Riordon, guardianes. Holliday and wife, 8 Ga., 79, controls the case; except as to said eleventh item of the will. We cannot, however, agree with the learned and able Judge, who decided this case in the Court below, that the case just cited, is an authority in point, when we come to construe said eleventh item of this will. In that case, the will gave only a life-estate to the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Riordon v. HolidaySupreme Court of Georgia · 1850
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