86 Ga. App. 268 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1952
The exceptions dealing with the excessiveness of the return were not argued or expressly insisted upon and will be treated as abandoned.
The plaintiff in error contends that the caveat did not raise the questions of “determining conflicting claims, nor adjudicating title to property, but the simple question as to whether or not a particular type or class of property, under the facts shown in the proceeding, is subject to be set aside as a part of year’s support.” Counsel for the plaintiff in error make an able and persuasive argument on this point, but we feel that the contention here is without merit. The caveat sought to show that the petitioner and the minor children were equitably estopped to deny that the store building was partnership property. This in effect was setting up a claim adverse to that of the estate. While it is true, as contended by the plaintiff in error, that a court of ordinary can set aside a year’s support only out of the assets of the deceased’s estate (Johnson v. City of Blackshear,
The court did not err in sustaining the demurrers to those paragraphs of the caveat attempting to show the store building as partnership property and in dismissing the caveat.
Judgments affirmed.