Mathews v. Graddick

The petitioner does not allege such title in the land as would authorize the court to adjudge the forfeiture of the estate of the first taker, and to decree title in the petitioner free of condition. Her interest in the fifty acres of land in the southeast portion of land lot 19 was either no interest whatever or that of a contingent remainder — contingent upon the petitioner surviving her father, C. C. Graddick. If the latter and she predeceased her father, she being the only child, the title would revert to the surviving brothers and sisters of C. C. Graddick. Curles v. Wade, 150 Ga. 142…