Case ID: ga_68/html/0829-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Francis et al. vs. Holbrook.
    1. Where a will is propounded and a<raveat is filed, upon failure to establish the will, the court cannot go further than to enter up judgment for costs against the propounder. Though parties beneficially interested as legatees may have aided the propounder by employing counsel and subpoenaing witnesses, they are not stich parties to the record as that a judgment for costs can be entered against them.
    
      (a.) Could one who propounds a will at the instance or for the benefit of another recover from the latter by assumpsit the costs which he had incurred by failing to establish the will ? Quaere.
    
    
      (b.) Semble, that if a will be betia fide presented for probate and not fraudulently pressed, and upon caveat the same is rejected, the costs should fall upon the estate. 22 Ga., 302.
    Jackson, Chief Justice.