Gholston v. Gholston
Supreme Court of Georgia
Husband and wife. Divorce. Alimony. Before Judge Pottle. Madison Superior Court. September Term, 1874. The above head-note, with the opinion, sufficiently reports this case.
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, Judge.
At the date of the institution of this suit, the law regulating the rights of the parties as to the property, was the act of 1806: Cobb’s Digest, 224, 225. By that act it provided that after the payment of the debts, the property “shall be subject to an equal division between the children of such parties, except the jury shall think proper to allow either party a part thereof. Under this statute, up to the adoption of the Code, the uniform ruling was, that the whole subject was open to the jury. By the Code of 1863, as was held by this court in Odom vs. Odom, 36 Georgia, 319,…
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