Perkins v. Keith
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, from Quitman Superior Court. Decision on demurrer, by Judge John T. Clark, at the May Term, 1863. Mariah J. Keith filed her bill in equity, in Quitman Superior Court against Williamson E. Perkins and Daniel Keith, as the administrators de bonis non of George W. Keith, deceased, in which she alleged, that in the month of October, 1860, she intermarried with George W. Keith; that in the month of November thereafter, Williamson E. Perkins, her father, placed in the…
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In Equity, from Quitman Superior Court. Decision on demurrer, by Judge John T. Clark, at the May Term, 1863. Mariah J. Keith filed her bill in equity, in Quitman Superior Court against Williamson E. Perkins and Daniel Keith, as the administrators de bonis non of George W. Keith, deceased, in which she alleged, that in the month of October, 1860, she intermarried with George W. Keith; that in the month of November thereafter, Williamson E. Perkins, her father, placed in the possession of her husband four negro slaves, with the express agreement and understanding by and between her said husband…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Lumpkin, C. J., delivering the opinion.
The capital defect in the argument of onr young brother, if he will pardon the criticism, is, in treating this as a contest between the husband, or representative of the deceased husband, and the wife or widow, instead of the father of the wife and his daughter, who are really the parties to the case. The argument is highly creditable to the research and industry of plaintiff’s counsel. The proposition assumed by Mr. *527Peavy, and fully sustained by his authorities, need not be controverted for the purposes of this decision.
It is contended…
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