86 Ga. 368 | Ga. | 1890
Basing our decision solely on the statutory system of this State, we rule that the will now before us was revoked by the subsequent marriage of the testatrix,
How the general question has been treated elsewhere under various shades of statutory provisions will appear from the following authorities : Loomis v. Loomis, 51 Barb. 257; Brown v. Clark, 77 N. Y. 369 ; Fransen’s Will, 26 Pa. St. 202 ; Swan v. Hammond, 138 Mass. 45, s. c. 52 Am. Hep. 255 ; Nutt v. Norton, 142 Mass. 243 ; Miller v. Phillips, 9 R. I. 141; McAnulty v. McAnulty (Ill.), 11 N. E. Rep. 397; In re Tuller, 79 Ill. 99, s. c. 22 Am. Rep. 164; Noyes v. Southworth, 55 Mich. 173, s. c. 54 Am. Rep. 359; Morton v. Onion, 45 Vt. 145 ; Carey’s Will, 49 Vt. 236; Ward’s Will, 70 Wis. 251, s. c. 5 Am. St. Rep. 174; Webb v. Jones, 36 N. J. Eq. 163; Fellows v. Allen, 60 N. H. 439, s. c. 49 Am. Rep. 328; Emery, App’t, in re Hunt’s Will, 81 Me. 275. See also, Beach on Wills, §64; 6 Lawson, Rights, Rem. & Pr. §3285 ; 80 Am. Dec. 516, notes to Young’s Appeal; 1 Jarman on Wills (5th Am. Ed.), p. 268 et seq.; 3 Id. p. 783, n. 19; Schouler on Wills, §424; 3 Washburne on Real Prop. 575, side p. 698; 1 Woerner’s Amer. Law of Admin., p. 107.