Brown v. Brown

Hawkins, Justice.

1. Where an unmarried man who left no children surviving him died intestate, leaving his mother and six brothers and sisters as his only heirs at law, the mother and the brothers and sisters each inherited an undivided one-seventh interest in the realty owned by the intestate at the time of his death, and they became tenants in common as to such realty. Code, § 113-903; Harris v. Mandeville, 195 Ga. 251 (24 S. E. 2d, 23). See also Stonecypher v. Coleman, 161 Ga. 403 (131 S. E. 75).

2. Where, following the death of such a person, his heirs at law enter into an agreement whereby…