American National Insurance v. Gantt

This case comes to this court on exceptions to the overruling and dismissing of a petition for certiorari from the municipal court of Atlanta to the superior court of Fulton county. It has appeared in this court before (41 Ga. App. 627, 154 S. E. 213), and, by certiorari, in the Supreme Court (173 Ga. 323, 160 S. E. 345). The Supreme Court held: “The presumption arising from seven years absence of a person from his accustomed place of abode, unheard from, raises not only a presumption of death, but also a presumption of death at the end of the seven-year period, in the absence of proof to the…