Meeks v. Kirkland’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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1. ““This is a claim case in which Lucille Meeks sought to assert against the administrator of the estate of Tillman Meeks a one-half interest in a described tract of land located in Coffee County. It appears that Lucille Meeks was formerly the wife of Tillman Meeks. She was divorced from him by a decree entered in the Superior Court of Fulton County on July 19, 1960. At that time, Tillman Meeks’ father was in life. He died sometime in 1968. The divorce decree undertook to award to plaintiff one-half of any interest that the defendant, Tillman Meeks, would receive and have out of the real and personal property in his father’s Georgia estate, either under his father’s will, or, if his father should die intestate, one-half of the interest defendant would inherit as an heir at law in property of which his father dies seized and possessed. Tillman Meeks died in 1970 in Fulton County seized and possessed of a tract of land consisting of 68 acres located in Coffee County, Georgia, the same having been acquired from his father under the provisions of his father’s will. The claim was transferred by the Ordinary of Fulton County to the Superior Court of Coffee County to be there tried as provided by law. The defendant Kirkland filed a motion to dismiss which was sustained, and the claimant appealed. Held: “1. The decree relied upon by the claimant, insofar as it purported to vest in her any interest in property to be derived from the ‘estate’ of the then living C. J. Meeks dealt with a ba”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Loeb v. Loeb