Payne v. Payne

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• unsuccessful attempt to destroy will where “no word contained in the will [was] destroyed or rendered obscure in the slightest degree”
• unsuccessful attempt to destroy will where \no word contained in the will [was] destroyed or rendered obscure in the slightest degree\
• No revocation occurred where testator threw his will into a fire, but his wife jerked it out of the fire before “a single word which the testator employed to express his testamentary wish [was] destroyed, obliterated, or even so much as rendered obscure in the slightest degree.”
• No revocation occurred where testator threw his will into a fire, but his wife jerked it out of the fire before “a single word which the testator employed to express his testamentary wish [was] destroyed, obliterated, or even so much as rendered obscure in the slightest degree.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-09-06· cited 10×
• Carter v. First United Methodist Church
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-17· cited 10×
• Wells v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-13· cited 6×
• Peterson v. Harrell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 5×
• Davis v. Parris
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-16· cited 5×
• Milbourne v. Milbourne
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 3×
• Colella v. Coutu
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 2×
• Harper v. Harper
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 2×
• KELLAR v. DAVIS Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-11· cited 1×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McIntyre v. McIntyre
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-05-12· cited 65×
• Harris v. McDonald
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1921-09-13· cited 37×
• Howard v. Hunter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1902-04-26· cited 17×
• Hargroves v. Redd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1871-01-15· cited 16×
• Pryor v. Coggin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1855-02-15· cited 13×
• Baucum v. Harper
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1933-01-14· cited 11×
• Byrd v. Riggs
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1952-05-12· cited 5×