Nail v. Mobley
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Appling Superior Court. Decision on demurrer by Judge Hansell, June Term, 1850. Elizabeth Nail, by her bill, filed in Appling Superior Court, charged, that her father, Reuben Nail, in the year 1822, executed and delivered to her a deed of gift to certain slaves named, ■which deed she believed had been destroyed by Morris Nail or Jesse Mobley; that she took possession of the negroes, occasionally permitting them to go into the possession of her father; that in…
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In Equity, in Appling Superior Court. Decision on demurrer by Judge Hansell, June Term, 1850. Elizabeth Nail, by her bill, filed in Appling Superior Court, charged, that her father, Reuben Nail, in the year 1822, executed and delivered to her a deed of gift to certain slaves named, ■which deed she believed had been destroyed by Morris Nail or Jesse Mobley; that she took possession of the negroes, occasionally permitting them to go into the possession of her father; that in 1840, her father executed another deed of gift, conveying to her a number of negroes and several tracts of land, a copy…
1Opinion of the Court
*280 By the Court.
Warner, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The complainant in this bill alleges that she has a title to certain property in the hands of the defendants, consisting of lands and negroes, by virtue of a deed of conveyance, executed to her by her father, Reuben Nail, who has departed this life intestate, and also claims one half of the estate of her deceased father, in the hands of the defendants, who, she alleges, havefraud■ulently combined together to deprive her of any share of the property to which she is entitled under the deed of conveyance or :as the distributee of her deceased…
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