Richards v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co.

Simmons, C. J.,

dissenting. 1. The deed executed under the decree of the superior court of Clarke county on February 14, 1871, by the executrix of the estate of James C. Branch, in specific performance of a parol gift. made by the latter many years before, conveyed the land in dispute to B. F. Jones, with words of inheritance, as trustee for Sarah Ann C. Ralls and her present children and any future child or children of hers, free from the debts, contracts, and control of her present husband, as well as any future husband she may have, and after the death of the said Sarah Ann C., to her…