Tant v. Wigfall
Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction. Ordinaries. Administrators and executors. Before FRANK H. MILLER., Esq., Judge pro hac vice. Richmond Superior Court. October Term, 1879. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
This case was a suit for land in Richmond superior court. Plaintiffs claim title as the immediate heirs of I. S. Tant, deceased, who, it is admitted, owned the land. Defendant claims the land by a succession of deeds running back to deeds from Hills, who sold said land as administrator of I. S. Tant, deceased, under an order of the court or ordinary of Floyd county, under which jurisdiction said letters of administration were granted to said Hills. Plaintiffs claim that said deceased resided in Richmond county at the time of his death, and that therefore said letters of…
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