143 Ga. 56 | Ga. | 1915
(After stating the foregoing facts.) We are of the opinion that the court erred in directing a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiffs showed that their ancestor, Barbara E. Stubbs, had title to the land under a deed from Eachel Blalock. This deed, executed on January 24, 1866, and recorded on the same day, conveyed a life interest to Barbara E. Stubbs, with remainder to her children, the grantor reserving the use and possession of the land during her life. There is no dispute that this deed was sufficient to vest the grantee with a life-estate in the property conveyed. The defendant derived title from a deed executed on September 12, 1871, by Barbara E. Stubbs to Thompson Nash, conveying the same property, and an instrument in writing executed by Eachel Blalockj which recites that she, having previously made a deed of gift to the land in controversy, and having in said deed reserved the right to control and use said land during her natural life, “I, Eachel Blalock, do by these presents and in the presence of the witnesses relinquish all right and titles to said claim whatever to
In the motion for a new trial there are numerous grounds complaining of the admission of evidence; but the assignments of error in these grounds raise no question for determination here, as they fail either to show what objection was urged at the time the evidence was introduced, or to set out the evidence introduced, literally
Judgment reversed.