Jackson v. Reeves
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Humphries. Fulton superior court. May 15, 1923. Dorothy B. Beeves filed her petition against P. P. Jackson, and made this case: On August 5, 1920 she was the owner, subject to a loan of $600, of certain described real estate, which she paid for from her own earnings on April 30, 1920. On August 3, 1920, she was the wife of H. A. Beeves.
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Humphries. Fulton superior court. May 15, 1923. Dorothy B. Beeves filed her petition against P. P. Jackson, and made this case: On August 5, 1920 she was the owner, subject to a loan of $600, of certain described real estate, which she paid for from her own earnings on April 30, 1920. On August 3, 1920, she was the wife of H. A. Beeves. On the latter date her husband and Jackson represented to her that her husband was indebted to Jackson in the sum of $500, and owed a certain automobile company the sum of $1400 for repairs on his automobile, which said repair…
1Opinion of the CourtHines, J.
1. A deed and bill of sale by a wife, made to pay or secure her husband’s debt, is absolutely void. Gross v. Whitely, 128 Ga. 79 (57 S. E. 94); Pierce v. Middle Georgia Land &c. Co., 131 Ga. 99, 101 (61 S. E. 1114); Civil Code (1910), § 3007; Gilmore v. Hunt, 137 Ga. 272 (73 S. E. 364).
2. Where a wife executes,her notes to a creditor of her husband, to pay the husband’s debt to such creditor, and makes the creditor a deed to her realty and a bill of sale to her personalty to secure them, such transaction is void; and the wife can proceed by her petition in equity to cancel such deed and bill…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Johnson v. Leffler Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1905
- Pierce v. Middle Georgia Land & Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1908
- Gross v. WhitelySupreme Court of Georgia · 1907
- Bond v. SullivanSupreme Court of Georgia · 1909
- McCrory v. Grandy & SonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1893
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