74 Ga. 523 | Ga. | 1885
The question here is, whether certain land devised to defendant in error under the will of her father, Robert 'Whitfield, is subject to be sold under execution founded on'judgments against her. The will is as follows :
“ I loan to my daughter, Almira J. Paradise, wife of John IV. Paradise, during her natural life, and for her sole and separate use and benefit (the land levied on), not subject to the debts of John W. Paradise, made or to be made, nor any future husband, not to be sold from her, as a life estate, but to remain in her possession through life, to enable her to raise and educate her children; and at my daughter’s death, the property to be equally divided amongst her children, to them and their heirs forever.”
The will appoints the executors thereto trustees for his daughter, A. J. Paradise. It further appeared by the record that she had raised and educated all of her children.
It is most manifest from this will that the great object of the testator was to secure the property to the sole and separate use of his daughter, so that the marital rights of her husband could not attach to it, and that it should be free from his control, not subject to his debts, and not to be sold by him; it nowhere denies to her the power of alienation, but the words, “ not to be sold from her,” evidently refer to the husband; it does not say that she cannot sell it, but
Judgment reversed.