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Jones v. Union Central Life Insurance
178 Ga. 591
Ga.
1934
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Hutcheson, J.

1. "The deed of an insane person, though made without fraud and for a valuable consideration, may be avoided by his heirs, not only as against his immediate grantee, but also as against bona fide purchasers for value and without notice of such insanity.” Warren v. Federal Land Bank of Columbia, 157 Ga. 464 (3a) (122 S. E. 40); Civil Code (1910), § 4237. And see Autry v. Parrish, 164 Ga. 650 (139 S. E. 413); Joiner v. Southern Land Sales Corporation, 158 Ga. 752, 753 (5) (124 S. E. 518). The evidence was conflicting on the question of the sanity of the grantor at the time of the execution of the deed, and it was a question for the jiiry as to whether he was sane at the time of the execution of the deed.

2. In connection with the testimony tending to show that W. H. Jones was insane from 1919 to the time of his death in 1927, documentary evidence consisting of the record and judgment by the court of ordinary adjudging him to be insane and committing him to the asylum, made four years after the execution of the deed, was inadmissible in evidence, and the judge did not err in excluding it.

3. The court erred in directing a verdict for the defendant, and in refusing a new trial. Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur. William E. Mann and W. Gordon Mann, for plaintiffs. E. P. Carrier and C. N, King, for defendants,

Case Details

Case Name: Jones v. Union Central Life Insurance
Court Name: Supreme Court of Georgia
Date Published: Feb 24, 1934
Citation: 178 Ga. 591
Docket Number: No. 9748
Court Abbreviation: Ga.
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