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167 Ga. 537

Clarke v. Jenson

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided December 15, 1928

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1928-12-15

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently February 1936

1 state decisions

Relies on McKemie v. Eady-Baker Grocery Co. · Hawkins v. Johnson · Fletcher v. Hall

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Decided 1928-12-15

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Russell, C. J.

¶11. An administrator’s deed which recites that he offered for sale a certain tract of land belonging to the estate of the deceased, containing 100 acres, more or less, and “especially sold subject to the widow’s dower therein,” and which witnesses a sale of “said lot or tract of land (the widow’s dower excepted),” evidences a sale of the reversionary estate in the land out of which dower was assigned. Hawkins v. Johnson, 131 Ga. 347, 355 (62 S. E. 285); Fletcher v. Hall, 135 Ga. 28 (68 S. E. 793); Knight v. Wood, 146 Ga. 753 (92 S. E. 281).

¶22. The judge, to whom the case was submitted for determination upon all questions of law and fact, did not err in rendering judgment for the defendants. Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.
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