Case Name: Prior, executor, v. Prior et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1901-07-24
Citations: 113 Ga. 1154
Docket Number: 
Parties: Prior, executor, v. Prior et al.
Judges: All the Justices concurring.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 113
Pages: 1154–1154

Head Matter:
Prior, executor, v. Prior et al.
Argued June 8,
Decided. July 24, 1901.
Complaint. Before Judge Evans. Screven superior court. July 3, 1900.
Oliver & Overstreet and H. B. Strange, for plaintiff in error.
E. K. Overstreet and White & Boykin, contra.

Opinion:
ITish, J.
This being an action by legatees against an executor, predicated upon his alleged failure to collect certain notes due to his testator by a third person, and the evidence showing affirmatively that this person was insolvent, and not showing that the executor could, by due diligence, have collected anything upon these notes, the yerdict against him was unwarranted. The general grounds of the motion for a new trial ought to have been sustained, but the special grounds of the same were without merit.
Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concurring.