Bridges v. Barbree
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Spence. Decatur superior court. November 14, 1905. Hettie Barbree filed her'petition against Bridges and Elizabeth Goodson, alleging, in substance, that a year’s support, consisting in part of a certain tract of land, had been duly set apart, out of the estate of petitioner’s deceased father, to his widow and to petitioner, then a minor child, “thereby vesting the title to said lot jointly in petitioner and Elizabeth Barber, widow;” that…
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Spence. Decatur superior court. November 14, 1905. Hettie Barbree filed her'petition against Bridges and Elizabeth Goodson, alleging, in substance, that a year’s support, consisting in part of a certain tract of land, had been duly set apart, out of the estate of petitioner’s deceased father, to his widow and to petitioner, then a minor child, “thereby vesting the title to said lot jointly in petitioner and Elizabeth Barber, widow;” that “petitioner is now of lawful age and married, . . and the said Elizabeth Barber has since remarried and is now Elizabeth…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
(After stating the facts.) 1-3. The principles •stated in -the first three headnotes are established law. They are merely a restatement of decisions by this court in cases where the issues were the same.as those presented by the record in the present •case. It is not alleged in the petition that the widow, who had remarried, proposed or intended to use the proceeds arising from the sale of the lands, for any purposes other than those contemplated by the statute creating the right to a year’s support for the family of a decedent; and in the absence of such an allegation there is no presumption…
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