Wood v. Isom
Supreme Court of Georgia
Pleadings. Evidence. Equity: Fraud. Title. Principal and Agent. Contracts. Witness. Practice in Superior Court. Jury. Before Judge Hillyer. Fulton Superior Court. April Term, 1881. Joseph Wood et al., as heirs of Elias Wood, deceased, filed their bill vs. John Isom, Hulsey & Tigner, Jno. R. Wallace, Benj. Williams, A. J. Atkinson and S. L. Mosely.
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Pleadings. Evidence. Equity: Fraud. Title. Principal and Agent. Contracts. Witness. Practice in Superior Court. Jury. Before Judge Hillyer. Fulton Superior Court. April Term, 1881. Joseph Wood et al., as heirs of Elias Wood, deceased, filed their bill vs. John Isom, Hulsey & Tigner, Jno. R. Wallace, Benj. Williams, A. J. Atkinson and S. L. Mosely. The bill, as amended, alleged that Elias Wood, during the year 1847, became possessed of a tract of land, lot number 250, in the 17th district of Fulton county, containing 202 1-2 acres. That he bought said land from D. J. Connelly, paying a full…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
This bill was brought by the heirs at law of Wood against Isom and others. The object of the bill is to set aside certain deeds, some as fraudulent, and others as taken with notice of the fraud of the original grantee, or in the event there was no notice to affect the purchasers, then to make the grantors to them account for the value of the lands so held from them by innocent purchasers without notice. The gravamen of the bill rests on the allegation that Isom took undue advantage of alleged weakness of mind in Wood, springing from deep religious convictions of duty,…
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