Supreme Court of Georgia, 1911

Giles v. Giles

Giles v. Giles
Supreme Court of Georgia · Decided February 15, 1911 · Lumpkin
135 Ga. 683; 70 S.E. 335; 1911 Ga. LEXIS 46

Giles v. Giles

Opinion of the Court

Lumpkin, J.

1. Whére a decedent left a small estate estimated at less than five hundred dollars in value, and was survived by a widow and children by a former wife, and after his death, but before the appointment of an adininistrator, the widow entered into a contract with the children, whereby she received fifty dollars in lieu of any claim upon the estate, including a year’s support, if such contract was made without fraud and with knowledge of her rights and of the condition of the *684estate, it would operate as a bar 'to a subsequent application for a year’s support.

February 15, 1911.Tear’s support. Before Judge Edwards. Douglas superior court. December 21, 1909.W. A. James, for plaintiff. Robert & Hutcheson and J. 8. James, for defendant.

2. Whether or not the charges complained of were in all respects accurate, they contained no such error as requires a reversal.

Judgment. affirmed.

All the Justices concur.

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