Hertz v. Abrahams
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Ealligant. Chatham superior court. May 27, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
The record discloses that Dr. Moses Sheftall, of Savannah, Greorgia, made his last will in 1849, and died in 1850. By the first item of his will he devised the real property in dispute as follows: “ I give and bequeath to my sister, Mrs. Perla S. Solomons, wife of Lizar Solomons, my brick store on Congress street, not subject to her present husband’s debts or her future husband’s debts, and in case my sister, Mrs. Perla S. Solomons, has no issue, the said store to go to my niece, Miss Nelly Sheftall Cohen, and to be settled on her; ” which is equivalent to a devise to A for her separate use,…
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