Bell v. Summerlin

Bell, Justice.

A deed conveyed a lot in the City of Sandersville to a named person “for and during her life, and at her death to be and become the property of such child or children as she may leave surviving her, descendants of children standing in place of their parents.” The municipality caused an adjacent street to be paved, and assessed the cost against the life-tenant and the property. The assessment was not paid, and the property was sold in virtue of an execution issued in like manner against the life-tenant and the property. Ga. L. 1927, p. 1517. In a suit afterwards brought by a…