Hathorn v. Maynard
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trust. Deed. Charge of Court. Vendor and purchaser. Husband and wife. Compromise and settlement. Evidence. New trial. Practice in the Supreme Court. Before Judge Law.^ON. Monroe Superior Court.
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Trust. Deed. Charge of Court. Vendor and purchaser. Husband and wife. Compromise and settlement. Evidence. New trial. Practice in the Supreme Court. Before Judge Law.^ON. Monroe Superior Court. August Term, 1879. This case was called at the heel of the docket of the entire term, under the act of 1877. A motion was made to dismiss the writ of error because of the delay in the transmission of the case from the clerk’s office of the superior court, it being claimed that the certificate of the clerk to the bill of exceptions brought it within the proviso to the first section of the act of 1877,…
1Opinion of the Court
Crawford, Justice..
B. M. Hathorn sold and conveyed to John B. Maynard 700 acres of land known as the Greer place. His sons, N. W. Hathorn and N. J. Hathorn, filed their bill in equity against him and John B. Maynard, in which they alleged that he was a trustee for their mother, Narcissa L. Hathorn, and themselves, and that the property sold was theirs in trust; that the said Maynard, who had bought it, knew that it was their trust property, although the title was in the said B. M. Hathorn. The prayer of the bill was that the said B. M. Hathorn be removed from his trust, and that the deed be…
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