Sterling v. Sims
Supreme Court of Georgia
Husband and Wife. Survivorship. Administrators and. Executors. Title. Choses in Action. Before Judge Harris. Troup Superior Court. April Term, 1883. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
This case was submitted to the court below, his Honor, S. W. Harris, judge presiding, on an agreed statement of facts, without the intervention of a jury.
The facts agreed on are as follows:' In 1851, in Troup •county, Wiley J. Sterling died intestate, leaving a widow, Bethena Sterling, and eight children, one of whom was Virginia J. Sims, then a married woman, wife of W. H. :Sims, of said county.
W. L. Sterling was appointed administrator, and fully -distributed the estate, and turned over to the widow, who •.’took dower, 670 acres of land. This was all done before 1866.
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