Jackson v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Issue of devisavit vel non, tried before the Hon. E. G. Cabaniss, at the August Term, 1860, of Monroe Superior Court. The questions presented for adjudication in this case arise out of the following state of facts: On the 19th of December, 1851, John Jackson made and published a will in the presence of O. C. Gibson, Elvers Jordan, A. II.
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Issue of devisavit vel non, tried before the Hon. E. G. Cabaniss, at the August Term, 1860, of Monroe Superior Court. The questions presented for adjudication in this case arise out of the following state of facts: On the 19th of December, 1851, John Jackson made and published a will in the presence of O. C. Gibson, Elvers Jordan, A. II. Jordan, and Isaac H. Butler, of which the following is a copy, to-wit: “ Georgia—Monroe County : “In the name of God, amen ! “I, John Jackson, of said county of Monroe, in view of. the uncertainty of life, and the certainty of death, and being specially…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
Lumpkin, J.,
delivering the opinion.
The first objection taken in this case is, that the Court erred in permitting the answers of Saphemy Rucker to be read to the first cross-interrogatory; the answer of Nancy Alexander to the fifth and seventh cross-interrogatories, and the answer of Jeremiah Smith to the cross-interrogatories, on the ground that the cross.-interrogatories specified were not fully answered. The objection was not to the reading of the interrogatories, because the several cross-questions were not answered fully, but to the reading of the answers to the…
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