Knowles v. Knowles
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Beagan. Butts superior court. February 17, 1908. Mrs. L. C. Knowles died in August, 1895, seized and possessed of an estate of personalty and realty, and leaving as her sole heirs at law her two sons, O. B. Knowles and James N. Knowles. Immediately after the death of his mother J. N. Knowles took possession of her estate.
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Beagan. Butts superior court. February 17, 1908. Mrs. L. C. Knowles died in August, 1895, seized and possessed of an estate of personalty and realty, and leaving as her sole heirs at law her two sons, O. B. Knowles and James N. Knowles. Immediately after the death of his mother J. N. Knowles took possession of her estate. He offered for probate a paper purporting to be the last will and testament of his mother, which was duly probated in common form in January, 1899; and afterwards, in August of the same year, it was probated in solemn form. J. N. Knowles was…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, P. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. The two controlling questions in this case arg: (1) Was the devise to the wife and legal heirs of J. N. Knowles void because of uncertainty as to the beneficiary? (2) Did the adjudication by the court of ordinary, after the probate of the will of Mrs. L. C. Knowles, that she died intestate as to all the property*' therein sought to be devised, except the feather-bed, and the appointing of an administrator to distribute the same as in the case *809of an intestacy, have the effect to declare an intestacy as to snch property? As to the first question, the…
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