Jones v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Wills. Estates. Title. Husband and Wife. Before Judge HlLLYER. Dekalb Superior Court. March Term, 1881. Jones et al. brought ejectment against Johnson. Both parties claimed under Everett Sapp. In 1845 Sapp made a will, by which, after making specific bequests, he left the residue of his estate to be divided into two shares, one to go to his son, the other in trust for his daughter, Sidney Ann Elizabeth Sapp, and her children for her life, with remainder to her children.
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Wills. Estates. Title. Husband and Wife. Before Judge HlLLYER. Dekalb Superior Court. March Term, 1881. Jones et al. brought ejectment against Johnson. Both parties claimed under Everett Sapp. In 1845 Sapp made a will, by which, after making specific bequests, he left the residue of his estate to be divided into two shares, one to go to his son, the other in trust for his daughter, Sidney Ann Elizabeth Sapp, and her children for her life, with remainder to her children. Subsequently the testator acquired the property in dispute, and his daughter married. In .1849 he made a codicil to his…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The second item of the codicil to the will reads: “ I give and devise all the real estate which I own or may own, in and about the city of Atlanta, in this state, in Dekalb county, to the said William B. Jones and my daughter, Sidney A. E. Jones, forever, the said real estate to be valued, and the value to be deducted from the portion which they may receive, according to my said will of-my estate.”
The first item appointed Jones, his son-in-law, executor of his will in the place of a former executor, and the preamble to the codicil stated his desire to dispose of this…
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