Legal Opinion

Flemister v. Flemister

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided May 17, 1889PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Title. Prescription. Executors. Wills. Estates. Presumptions. Evidence. Ejeqtment. Dower. Redemption. Parties. Before Judge Boynton. Newton superior court. September term, 1888. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

Taking the results of all the' evidence,.both that admitted and that rejected, Flemister, the testator, died in 1866, and his will was probated and admitted to record, but the nominated executors declined to qualify. His residuary legatees. and devisees were his widow and child, in equal shares, with a provision that if the former died leaving no other child, her share was then to belong to the latter. The same persons were his only heirs at law. In the residuum was a tract of land containing several hundred acres, in which the widow claimed dower, which was assigned…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. Shipp v. Gibbs & SpenceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1891
  2. Northrop v. Columbian Lumber Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1911
  3. Samet v. United StatesDistrict Court, M.D. North Carolina · 1965
  4. Hodges v. Stuart Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1907
  5. Hodges v. Stuart Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1913

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