Livingston v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Martin. Dodge superior court. September 14, 1907. Mary Livingston and the other heirs of Alfred Mullís filed their equitable petition against J. D. Taylor as administrator of Lovett Brown, and certain others alleged to be grantees of Brown of certain portions of lot of land number 216 in the 16th district of Dodge county, to recover this lot of land from the defendants, and to have the deeds of the defendants thereto delivered up and…
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Martin. Dodge superior court. September 14, 1907. Mary Livingston and the other heirs of Alfred Mullís filed their equitable petition against J. D. Taylor as administrator of Lovett Brown, and certain others alleged to be grantees of Brown of certain portions of lot of land number 216 in the 16th district of Dodge county, to recover this lot of land from the defendants, and to have the deeds of the defendants thereto delivered up and canceled. The petition contained substantially the following averments: Alfred Mullís died on September 25, 1875, leaving as a…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, P. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. One ground of the motion for a new trial complains that the court in his charge to the jury failed to state the contentions of the plaintiffs in vital particulars. The instructions of the court in this regard were substantially that the plaintiffs contended that Alfred Mullis died seized and possessed of a certain lot of land; that Lovett Brown as his executor, under an order from the court of ordinary, sold the land in controversy, and at the sale the executor, through an intermediary, purchased the land; that such sale was voidable as to the legatees,…
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