Reynolds v. Norvell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Hammond. Columbia superior court. September 7, 1906. The petitioners, as sole next of kin of Dickerson Reynolds and Seaborn A. Reynolds, filed their petition to the March term, 1906, of Columbia superior court, against Thomas E. Norvell, individually and as administrator with the will annexed of Dickerson Reynolds, wherein they set up the following state of facts: Dickerson Reynolds died in 1886, and his will was duly probated in 1887.…
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Hammond. Columbia superior court. September 7, 1906. The petitioners, as sole next of kin of Dickerson Reynolds and Seaborn A. Reynolds, filed their petition to the March term, 1906, of Columbia superior court, against Thomas E. Norvell, individually and as administrator with the will annexed of Dickerson Reynolds, wherein they set up the following state of facts: Dickerson Reynolds died in 1886, and his will was duly probated in 1887. Gilpin, the nominated executor, duly qualified as such. He left surviving him his wife Elizabeth, and Seaborn A., a son by a…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, P. J.
The petition alleges that the tract of land sued for was set aside as a year’s support to the defendant Norvell’s grantee, and duly ordered to record. “Such a record has the bind*515±ng force and effect of any other judgment.” Birt v. Brown, 106 Ga. 23; Josey v. Gordon, 107 Ga. 110. Therefore, if the judgment was valid, and the property set aside was in the estate of the testator, Dickerson Eeynolds, at the time it was set aside, petitioners, who claim only as next of kin of Dickerson Eeynolds, have no right to recover.
1. But it is claimed that the proceedings had upon the application for year’s…
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