Legal Opinion
Nixon v. Nixon
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 8, 1944No. 14795PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Grice, Justice.
This is the third appearance of this case. See Nixon v. Nixon, 192 Ga. 629 (15 S. E. 2d, 883); 194 Ga. 301 (21 S. E. 2d, 702).
The first exception in the present record is to that portion of the decree awarding an attorney’s fee to counsel for the plaintiff, to be paid out of the funds in the hands of the commissioner which arose from the sale of the realty. No question is made as to the amount of the allowance, the insistence being that it was erroneous to grant any at all.
Our law provides two methods by which a party may have partition. One is in equitjq the other under a…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Trustees v. GreenoughSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Hempstead v. Meadville Theological SchoolSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
- Capuccio v. CaireCalifornia Supreme Court · 1929
- Eckford v. Borough of AtlantaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1931
- Werner v. WernerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1943
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3Cited by7 opinions
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- O'CONNOR v. BielskiSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
- Industrial Distribution Group, Inc. v. WaiteCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1996
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