Swain v. Stewart
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint for land. Before Judge Reese. Taliaferro superior court. February term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Chief Justice.
Preston Stewart died in 1879, leaving a widow and a minor child. In 1881 the widow married Gunn. After her second marriage she applied for and had set apart by the ordinary a year’s support for herself and the minor child out of the estate of her first husband. The year’s support consisted of a small amount of personalty and a tract of land. The minor child, after the death of her mother, brought, by next friend, an action of complaint for the land, against Swain, wlm claimed title as tenant of T. E. Bristow, under a deed from the mother. Upon the- trial of the case,…
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