Byne v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Evidence. Administrators and Executors. Guardian and Ward. Statute of Limitations. Charge of Court. Confederate Money. Verdict. Before Judge Snead. Burke.Superior Court.
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Evidence. Administrators and Executors. Guardian and Ward. Statute of Limitations. Charge of Court. Confederate Money. Verdict. Before Judge Snead. Burke.Superior Court. May Term, 1880. Julia W. Hayne, individually-and as guardian of Mary Anderson, moved three rules in the court of ordinary against Edmund Byne for settlement — one against him as guardian of Mary Anderson, one as administrator de bonis non on the estate of James Anderson, Jr., and the other as administrator de bonis non of Moses P. Anderson. The rules being tried in the court of ordinary, an appeal was taken to the superior…
1Opinion of the Court
JACKSON, Chief Justice.
This cause comes before us on pleadings so uncertain, and a record so incomplete, that it is difficult to apply legal principles with any degree of accuracy to it. It is equally troublesome so to probe through the unknown tissues and arteries of evidence and want of evidence as to touch with any degree of certainty the spot where justice lies concealed from our view. Three cases are consolidated and tried together. What interest Mary Anderson has in two of them the record nowhere shows. What part of the estates of either of the two decedents of which Byne was the…
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