99 Ga. 324 | Ga. | 1896
A testator devised to Ms wife during her widowhood, with remainder to their four children, a tract of land. One of the latter died after the testator, leaving his widowed mother and the other three children as his only heirs at law. Two of these three, while the widow was 'in life and in possession of the land, signed exactly similar instruments, each -of which purported 'to have been -executed upon a valuable consideration, and the material parts of which were as follows: “I . . have this day relinquished all my right, interest -and title vested in me by virtue of -a right vested in me by my father, N. K. Wright, deceased, to Robert J. Wright, to a tract of land whereon S. A. Wright [the widow] now lives, known as the N. K. Wright dee’d land, all my interest and title that I have or may -have, into the hands -of R. J. Wright.” After the death of the Widow, the grantee sought to recover fro-m each of the grantors