Cartledge v. Cutliff
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Columbia Superior Court. Tried before Judge Holt, September Term, 1859. This case came before this Court, and was heard upon the following bill of exceptions: John M. Cutliff and Wife, "} vs. 't Bill for discovery and se «John Cartledge and Wife, J tlement. Be it remembered, that at the.
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In Equity, in Columbia Superior Court. Tried before Judge Holt, September Term, 1859. This case came before this Court, and was heard upon the following bill of exceptions: John M. Cutliff and Wife, "} vs. 't Bill for discovery and se «John Cartledge and Wife, J tlement. Be it remembered, that at the. September Term of said ’Court, on the eighth day of said month, and daring said Term, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine — the Honorable William W. Holt, presiding J udge of said Court — the above stated cause, being an equity proceeding, by John M. Cutliff and Mary S., his wife, former…
1Opinion of the Court
— Lyon J.
By the Court
delivering the opinion.
John Cartledge and his wife Elcey, previous to their intermarriage in 1836, executed an antenuptial settlement, is which, after enumerating the wife’s property, intended thereby to be settled and secured, and constituting John W. Reid, trustee and agent of the said Elcey, is to be found the following provisions, “in whom (the trustee and agent) it is intended that all of the above property, its interest and value, shall absolutely vest in law, irrevocably, to be by him used for the furtherance of its value, reserving to herself, family and other…
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