Bank of Wrightsville v. Powell

1. The year’s support provided for under the Civil Code (1910), § 4041, must be set apart "from the estate” of the deceased husband or father. Summerford v. Gilbert, 37 Ga. 59.

2. A deed made to defraud creditors, though void as to them, is good between the grantor and the grantee, and the former after executing such deed has no title to the property thereby conveyed; and therefore the same can not be set apart as a year’s support for his widow. McDowell v. McMurria, 107 Ga. 812 (2) (33 S. E. 709, 73 Am. St. R. 155), and cit.

3. Where land has been conveyed for the purpose of defrauding…