Bowman v. Long
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, from Bibb county, between Long, complainant, and Brown, defendant. Tried before Judge Lamar, May Term, 1853. The allegations of this bill are set forth in the report of the same case when it was before this Court on demurrer, at Macon, June Term, 1857, except the following amendment, filed by complainant to the bill, and served on defendant the 21st May, 1858, and which comes in at the place where complainant alleges “ that by virtue of the will and codicil, &c.,”…
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In Equity, from Bibb county, between Long, complainant, and Brown, defendant. Tried before Judge Lamar, May Term, 1853. The allegations of this bill are set forth in the report of the same case when it was before this Court on demurrer, at Macon, June Term, 1857, except the following amendment, filed by complainant to the bill, and served on defendant the 21st May, 1858, and which comes in at the place where complainant alleges “ that by virtue of the will and codicil, &c.,” “that in the event that said legacy so left as aforesaid to his child and ward, should be held to vest in said child,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benning J.
delivering the opinion.
These two cases grow out of a bill filed by Jesse L. Long, as the guardian of his minor son, Wm. H. Long, against Robert Bowman, as executor of John Bowman, deceased, to obtain -possession of the legacy left to the minor son, in the .will of John Bowman.
One of the questions in the cases, is, was the guardian entitled to have possession of the “ corpus” of the legacy, for the use of the ward ?
*146The estate which the ward took, was the fee, or absolute interest, subject to be divested on his dying under the age of twenty-one years. Long vs. Bowman, 23…
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