Baxley v. Moody

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Under the will of her late husband, Mattie Lee Baxley was left a life estate in a tract of land in Appling County, a portion of which was condemned by the Georgia Department of Transportation. The DOT paid $31,590 into the court registry as compensation; Baxley as life tenant and the appellees as remaindermen to the estate agreed to use $1,250 of that fund to purchase a new well, pump, and pumphouse, but otherwise contested each other’s present entitlement to the money. Baxley sought to be allowed to post a bond, hold the principal for the benefit of the remaindermen,…