Jacobus v. Congregation of Children
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Callaway. Richmond superior court. April 21, 1898.
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
The defendant in the court below moved .to dismiss the plaintiffs’ petition, upon the ground that no cause of action was set out therein. The court sustained the motion, and the plaintiffs excepted. The petition alleged, in substance, that the three plaintiffs are the children of Jacob Jacobus, and his wife Manahn, who had born unto them two other children, Harold and Irene, both of whom died in infancy. In January, 1856, Jacob Jacobus purchased of the defendant, a corporation owning and controlling certain burial-grounds located in the city cemetery of Augusta, a certain described lot, or…
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