Newton v. Bullard

Bell, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The verdict in favor of the defendant was unauthorized, and a new trial should have been granted on the general grounds. The only interest which Julia S. Newton had in this land was the estate conveyed to her by Mary F. Newton, by the deed of March 14, 1876, which deed conveyed a life-estate only. Seaboard Air-Line Ry. v. Simmerville, 142 Ga. 317 (82 S. E. 290); Smith v. Frost, 144 Ga. 115 (86 S. E. 235). While the deed provided that if Julia S. Newton should die without children, as she did, the property should go in fee simple or otherwise…