Dickinson v. Jones
Supreme Court of Georgia
Rule nisi for injunction. Decided by Judge Vason, Chambers, April, 1867. Dougherty County, Georgia. John T. Dickinson, for himself, and in right of his wife, Julia, and his children, Henry G. Eogers and John T. Dickinson, Jr.; and ’William Q,. Dickinson, for himself and his wife, Cornelia, and as trustee for the wife and children of Bichard A. Dickinson, deceased, to wit: Archibald and Zelima Bell Dickinson, averred that the aforesaid are the children and grand-children of…
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Rule nisi for injunction. Decided by Judge Vason, Chambers, April, 1867. Dougherty County, Georgia. John T. Dickinson, for himself, and in right of his wife, Julia, and his children, Henry G. Eogers and John T. Dickinson, Jr.; and ’William Q,. Dickinson, for himself and his wife, Cornelia, and as trustee for the wife and children of Bichard A. Dickinson, deceased, to wit: Archibald and Zelima Bell Dickinson, averred that the aforesaid are the children and grand-children of Eoger Q. Dickinson, late of said county, deceased, and as such are entitled to an estate in remainder, in a certain…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
The refusal of the Circuit Judge to grant the injunction applied for by the remaindermen against the purchaser of the life-estate in the lands, to stay the waste being perpetrated by such tenant, as the destruction of the growing timber, clearing up the wood lands to put them in cultivation, &c., evinces the necessity of collecting and presenting old and familiar principles of the common law touching the respective estates in fee simple and life estates in lands, so as to remove the misapprehensions which so generally exist in the popular mind in reference to them.
An estate in fee simple is…
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