Cox v. Cody & Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Evidence. Year’s Support. Homestead. Title. Before Judge Roney. Warren County. At Chambers. July 23, 1885. To the repoi't contained in the decision, it is necessary to add only that the defendants in ejectment (complainants in the bill) relied on a deed made in 1871 by Mrs. Ann D. Wallace (now Aun D. Cox) to E. P. Heath and R. A. Heath, under whom the complainants claimed.
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Evidence. Year’s Support. Homestead. Title. Before Judge Roney. Warren County. At Chambers. July 23, 1885. To the repoi't contained in the decision, it is necessary to add only that the defendants in ejectment (complainants in the bill) relied on a deed made in 1871 by Mrs. Ann D. Wallace (now Aun D. Cox) to E. P. Heath and R. A. Heath, under whom the complainants claimed. This deed purported to convey the interest of Mrs. Wallace and her two minor children in the lot, in fee simple, and recited that it had been set apart as a homestead to them, since the death of her husband, from his…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The plaintiff in error, on behalf of herself and her two *177minor children, as the only heirs at law of Charles Wallace, deceased, brought an action of ejectment to recover a certain tract or parcel of land in Warren county. The defendants in error filed their bill to enjoin this action, upon the ground that the land had been set apart as a homestead to Mrs. Wallace (now Cox), as the head of a family of minor children—there being two minor children of Charles Wallace, deceased, and the said Ann D., his widow—out of the estate of said deceased, and that she, as head of the…
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