Legal Opinion

Yarbrough v. Yarbrough

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided May 16, 1947No. 15764PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Head, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) A caveator to the probate of a will can admit a-prima facie case in favor of the propounder, and in such case is entitled to open and conclude. Wood v. Davis, 161 Ga. 690 (131 S. E. 885); Tilley v. King, 190 Ga. 421 (9 S. E. 2d, 670). In. the instant case, the caveatrix amended her pleadings by admitting that the instrument offered for probate as the will of Hiram Yarbrough was signed by him in the presence of three witnesses; that they signed as witnesses in his presence and in the presence of each other; and that he was, at the time of its…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Brumbelow v. HopkinsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1944
  2. Tilley v. KingSupreme Court of Georgia · 1940
  3. Griffin v. BarrettSupreme Court of Georgia · 1936
  4. Waters v. WellsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1923
  5. O'Brien v. SpaldingSupreme Court of Georgia · 1897

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Adler v. AdlerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1950
  2. Favors v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1978
  3. Godfrey v. FrancisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1983
  4. Bailey v. EdmundsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 2006
  5. Saliba v. SalibaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1947

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