Pharis v. Perry

Reid, Chief Justice.

In the recent case of Fleming v. May, 190 Ga. 413 (9 S. E. 2d, 657), we ruled, under prior decisions and pertinent Code provisions, that first cousins of an intestate were entitled to inherit the estate, where the intestate left no direct heirs, and collaterally no brothers or sisters, children or grandchildren of brothers or sisters, or father or mother, and that in such case second cousins had no interest therein either as heirs or as representatives of deceased first cousins, there being no representation among collaterals beyond children and grandchildren of brothers…