Daniel v. Frost
Supreme Court of Georgia
Gift. Wills. Debtor and creditor. Executors and administrators. Claim. Pleadings. Evidence. New trial. Charge of Court. Practice in the Superior Court. Jury. Sheriff. Yerdict. Newly discovered evidence. Before' Judge Buchanan. Heard Superior Court. September Term, 1878. On January 6, 1877, an attachment in favor of Frost against Jones and wife, was levied upon lot 285 in the 12th district of Heard eouñty.
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Gift. Wills. Debtor and creditor. Executors and administrators. Claim. Pleadings. Evidence. New trial. Charge of Court. Practice in the Superior Court. Jury. Sheriff. Yerdict. Newly discovered evidence. Before' Judge Buchanan. Heard Superior Court. September Term, 1878. On January 6, 1877, an attachment in favor of Frost against Jones and wife, was levied upon lot 285 in the 12th district of Heard eouñty. Daniel as executor of John Daniel, in behalf of himself and his co-executor, interposed a claim. At the March term, 1878, the plaintiff tendered an issue that the property levied on was…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Justice.
The evidence in the record conducts, partly by direct statement, and partly by reasonable inference, to the follow*703ing conclusions of fact: That on the marriage of Jones and wife in the year 1854 or 1855, most probably in the former, John Daniel, her father, purchased the land now in dispute for his daughter as a marriage portion, removed them to it, and settled them upon it; that from that time until Jones and family removed to Texas in November, 1874, Jones was in continuous, unbroken possession, the first one or two years holding in person, and afterwards by his tenants,…
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