CRIPPEN & LAWRENCE INVESTMENT CO., INC. v. a TRACT OF LAND BEING KNOWN AS 444 LEMON STREET

310 Ga. 171

FINAL COPY S19G1645. CRIPPEN & LAWRENCE INVESTMENT COMPANY, INC. v. A TRACT OF LAND BEING KNOWN AS 444 LEMON STREET et al. BLACKWELL, Justice. When Lillie Mae Bedford died in 1997, she left a residential property in Marietta by testamentary devise to her daughter, Jennifer Hood. Although the Bedford estate never made and delivered a deed to Hood to perfect a conveyance of legal title, Hood lived on the property for some time after the death of her mother, and she paid the taxes associated with it. But beginning in 2009, the taxes on the property were unpaid, and in 2013, the…