Casey v. Casey
Supreme Court of Georgia
Appeal. Before Judge Graham. Camden superior court. January 12, 1020. Mrs. Mary E. Casey, the widow of W. N. Casey, made application for a year’s support. The appraisers appointed made a return setting apart two hundred acres of described land and all of the household and kitchen furniture. Caveats were filed by Mrs. Casey, Mrs. Ella Lee Carlton, and Thomas E. Casey, executor of W. N. .Casey.
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Appeal. Before Judge Graham. Camden superior court. January 12, 1020. Mrs. Mary E. Casey, the widow of W. N. Casey, made application for a year’s support. The appraisers appointed made a return setting apart two hundred acres of described land and all of the household and kitchen furniture. Caveats were filed by Mrs. Casey, Mrs. Ella Lee Carlton, and Thomas E. Casey, executor of W. N. .Casey. The grounds of the latter caveat were that the will of W. N. Casey, which had been probated in solemn form, without objection, contained a provision which, by necessary implication, was intended to be in…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, J.
Save the sixth, none of the headnotes require elaboration. The twelfth ground of the amended motion for a new trial, which is quoted in the sixth headnote, squarely makes the issue whether, on the trial of the caveat to the return of appraisers setting aside a year’s support for a widow, the amount set aside *172may be changed'or modified, and a judgment rendered to that effect, or whether the sole issue on such a trial is one of allowance or disallowance of the return of the appraisers. It is insisted by the plaintiff in error that on the trial in the superior court, to which the case had been…
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