Brown v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Upson Superior Court. Tried before Judge Starke, November Term, 1852. Mrs. Macbarine Bunldey executed ber will on tbe 18tb of January, 1850, leaving tbe larger portion of ber property to George W. Bunldey during his life, and after bis death, to bis children, tbe complainants in tbe bill; and also making bequests to tbe defendants in tbe bill. The will contains a legacy to James Anderson, who is in it nominated tbe executor.
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In Equity, in Upson Superior Court. Tried before Judge Starke, November Term, 1852. Mrs. Macbarine Bunldey executed ber will on tbe 18tb of January, 1850, leaving tbe larger portion of ber property to George W. Bunldey during his life, and after bis death, to bis children, tbe complainants in tbe bill; and also making bequests to tbe defendants in tbe bill. The will contains a legacy to James Anderson, who is in it nominated tbe executor. Mrs. Bunldey died, and tbe will was proven in common form by tbe oaths of tbe subscribing witnesses, before Thomas J. Bethel and Thomas Beall, Justices of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
We are to determine whether the Circuit Judge administered the law when he overruled the demurrer to the plea filed by the defendants in the Court below. The defendants pleaded in bar, a judgment of the Superior Court of Upson County, upon appeal by consent from the Court of Ordinary, setting aside the will of Mrs. Bunkley, upon an'issue of devisavit vel non. The case originated before the Ordinary upon a citation to_ the executor, on the part of Terrel Barksdale and Stephen Harvey, parties interested in the estate of Mrs. Bunkley, calling upon…
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