Court Opinion

ID: 8782770
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 13:24:46.770794+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:02:55.085006
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PER CURIAM.
The questions involved on these writs of error are with one slight exception identical with those in Northrop v, Columbian Lumber Company, decided by this court February 7, 1911, and reported in 186 Fed. 770, 108 C. C. A. 640. The only exception is in the ruling of the trial court in the present cases that the will of Claudius B. Northrop, plaintiffs’ ancestor, was not admissible in evidence, because not probated in the state of Georgia until after the institution of the action, while in Northrop v. Columbian Lumber Company, supra, the will was admitted on the trial, and the effect thereof • disputed in this court.
As, in our opinion, in the case above referred to, title under a will is shown to vest at the time of the death of the testator, and not at the time of the probate of the will, and as we then considered Deas v. Sammons, 126 Ga. 431, 55 S. E. 170, 7 Ann. Cas. 1124, and other cases cited in the briefs, it seems to be clear that the will of Claudius B. Northrop was admissible in evidence, and that for the reasons given in Northrop v. Columbian Lumber Company, supra, the judgment in each of the above entitled and numbered cases should be reversed, and the cause remanded, with instructions to award a new trial.
And it is so ordered.