Legal Opinion

Turman v. Winecoff

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 25, 1912PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Equitable intervention. Before Judge Pendleton. Fulton superior court. May 26, 1911.

1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.

1. In order that a power to sell may survive the death of the grantor, it must be coupled with an interest; and that interest must be not in the proceeds alone of the thing to be sold, but in the thing itself. Civil Code, § 3575, par. 1; Lathrop v. Brown, 65 Ga. 315; Wilkins v. McGehee, 86 Ga. 764 (13 S. E. 84). Such power will not survive merely because the donee may have paid a valuable consideration for it. Coney v. Sanders, 28 Ga. 511.

2. Applying the rule above announced to the contract upon which the petition for intervention in the present case was based, and to the allegations of such…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Wilkins v. McGeheeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1891
  2. Lathrop & Co. v. BbownSupreme Court of Georgia · 1880
  3. Coney v. SandersSupreme Court of Georgia · 1859

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Gurr v. GurrSupreme Court of Georgia · 1944
  2. Finn v. DobbsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1939

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