Bracewell v. Morton

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

1. Where land is held by a life-tenant, and taxes are assessed against her, and executions are issued in personam only, a sale under levy of such executions passes only the life-estate. Howell v. Lawson, 188 Ga. 164 (3 S. E. 2d, 79); Dooley v. Bohannon, 191 Ga. 7 (11 S. E. 2d, 188).

2. Where an instrument of writing was executed as a deed, attested by two witnesses, one of whom was an officer authorized to witness deeds, purporting on its face to have been delivered, and was recorded, this raised a presumption of delivery. Shelton v. Edenfield, 148 Ga. 128 (96 S. E.…