Legal Opinion

Boardman v. Taylor

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 15, 1881PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Continuance. Deeds. Title. Trusts. Evidence. Principal and agent. Notice. Service. Minors. Usury. Verdict. Before Judge SIMMONS. Bibb Superior Court. April term, 1880. Boardman, in his own right and as next friend of the minor children of Charles T. Holmes, filed his bill against Mrs. E. A. (or A. E.) Watkins, Charles T. Holmes and his wife, Mrs. Georgia A. Holmes, and Gibbons M. Taylor.

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Continuance. Deeds. Title. Trusts. Evidence. Principal and agent. Notice. Service. Minors. Usury. Verdict. Before Judge SIMMONS. Bibb Superior Court. April term, 1880. Boardman, in his own right and as next friend of the minor children of Charles T. Holmes, filed his bill against Mrs. E. A. (or A. E.) Watkins, Charles T. Holmes and his wife, Mrs. Georgia A. Holmes, and Gibbons M. Taylor. He alleged, in brief, as follows: In 1863, John D. Watkins, the husband of one of the defendants, was the trustee of a Mrs. Edwards, and held the property now in controversy. In that year he gave to…

1Opinion of the Court

Jackson, Chief Justice. •

This case arose on a bill filed by Boardman in his own right, and as next friend of the minor children of Holmes and wife, against the said Holmes and wife, Mrs. Watkins, the mother of Mrs. Holmes, and Taylor, a purchaser of á house and lot in Macon, to secure a debt of his, to reform a certain deed made at the instance of Watkins, the husband of Mrs. Watkins .and father of Mrs. Holmes, to the said house and lot, by complainant to John Rutherford as trustee for the wife of Watkins for life and then to his daughter. The bill alleges that Watkins, trustee, had…

2Cited by13 opinions

  1. Cox v. ZuckerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1958
  2. Taylor v. American Freehold Land Mortgage Co. of London Ltd.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1898
  3. Neal Lumber & Manufacturing Co. v. O'NealSupreme Court of Georgia · 1932
  4. Woodruff v. GilliamWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1935
  5. Hughes v. GriswoldSupreme Court of Georgia · 1889

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