Bailie v. McWhorter
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trusts. Equity. Receiver. Debtor and creditor. Parties. Before Judge Tompkins. Richmond Superior Court. October Term, 1875. The facts are sufficiently stated in the first head-note.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
1. The court dismissed the bill, on demurrer, for want of equity. The defendant contends, not that the complainants have a common law remedy, but that they have no remedy at all. He insists, through his learned counsel, that the trust is executory, and falls within the case of Edmondson vs. Dyson, 2 Kelly, 307. On account of the executory character of the trust he denies that the rule announced in Gray vs. Obear, 54 Georgia Reports, 331, that a trust estate cannot be created for the sole benefit of a full-grown man, who is sui juris, applies. We can, for the purposes of the…
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