Case ID: ga_67/html/0768-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Blackstock et al. vs. Mitchell, executor.
    A man who held title to a tract of land, his wife joining him, executed a written instrument' in the general form of a warranty deed, but conveying the land to a son in the following terms: The grantors have “ granted, bargained, sold and conveyed, and do by these pres- ' ents grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Joseph Prater, Jr., his heirs and assigns at our death, free from any claim whatever of our other children,” the land described. The same instrument conveyed certain personalty to the same grantee, with the provision that possession should be postponed until the death of the grantors :
    
      Held, that as to the realty the instrument was testamentary in character. Code, §2395; 2 Kelly 46; 51 Ga„ 239; 20 Ib., 707; 55 lb., 369; 17 Ib., 275.
    Speer, Justice.