Bass v. Bass
Supreme Court of Georgia
Will. Evidence. Deed. Equity. Discovery. Charge of Court. New trial. Before Judge Underwood. Chattooga Superior Court. March Term, 1874. Persons Bass filed his bill against James A. Bass, as administrator upon the estate of Joseph L. Bass, deceased, making the following case: Prior to January 11th, 1867, complainant and wife were aged and infirm, and incapable of supporting themselves.
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Will. Evidence. Deed. Equity. Discovery. Charge of Court. New trial. Before Judge Underwood. Chattooga Superior Court. March Term, 1874. Persons Bass filed his bill against James A. Bass, as administrator upon the estate of Joseph L. Bass, deceased, making the following case: Prior to January 11th, 1867, complainant and wife were aged and infirm, and incapable of supporting themselves. His son, Joseph L. Bass, agreed to support his parents as long as they should live, in consideration of complainant’s devising to him lot of land sixty-two, and one-half of lot sixty-one, in the sixth district…
1Opinion of the Court
Trippe, Judge.
1. Persons Bass, the maker of the deed, filed the bill in his lifetime, to cancel it. His representative, who is made a party complainant; offered in evidence at the trial the will of Bass, for the purpose of sustaining the charges contained in the bill, and to obtain the decree prayed for. The court rejected the will as evidence, and we think it was properly re*536jected. The case of Nathan C. Munroe, executor, vs. N. C. and George G. Napier, decided at the present term, liad precisely the question in it that is involved in this point, and a similar •decision was made in that case…
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