Farris v. Battle
Supreme Court of Georgia
Tear’s support. Debtor and creditor. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Fulton superior court. September term, 1886. Mrs. Farris, widow of Summerfield Farris, late of Fulton county, applied for a year’s support for herself and children out of his estate. The administrator thereof answered that its debts were more than sufficient to exhaust its assets ; and that the applicant was not a citizen or resident of the 'State of Georgia.
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Tear’s support. Debtor and creditor. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Fulton superior court. September term, 1886. Mrs. Farris, widow of Summerfield Farris, late of Fulton county, applied for a year’s support for herself and children out of his estate. The administrator thereof answered that its debts were more than sufficient to exhaust its assets ; and that the applicant was not a citizen or resident of the 'State of Georgia. On the hearing before the ordinary, it appeared that the applicant and her husband wete married in 1865, and lived together for about ten years, in Tennessee, during…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The code, §2571, declares that, “ upon the death of any person, testate or intestate, leaving an estate solvent or insolvent, and leaving a widow, or a widow and minor child or children, or minor child or children only, it shall be the duty of the ordinary, on the application of the widow, or the guardian of tho child or children, or any other person in their behalf, on notice to the representative of the estate? . . . to appoint five discreet appraisers, and it shall be the duty of such appraisers, or a majority of them, to set apart and assign to such widow and…
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