CRIPPEN & LAWRENCE v. A TRACT OF LAND

S19G1645.

850 S.E.2d 167 (2020)

CRIPPEN & LAWRENCE INVESTMENT CO., INC. v. A TRACT OF LAND BEING KNOWN AS 444 LEMON STREET, et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 19, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Hampton Coleman , Coleman Law, LLC, 675 Seminole Avenue NE, Suite 302, Atlanta, Georgia 30307, Attorneys for the Appellant.

James L. McDaniel , McDaniel & Scott, 437 E. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur, Georgia 30030-1828, Barry Philip Bettis , Bettis Law Group, LLC, 1825 Lockeway Drive, Suite 201, Alpharetta, Georgia 30004, Attorneys for the Amicus Appellant.

Reginald L. Snyder , Taylor English Duma, LLP, 1600 Parkwood Circle, Ste 200, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, Attorneys for the Appellee.


When Lillie Mae Bedford died in 1997, she left a residential property in Marietta by testamentary devise to her daughter, Jennifer Hood. Although the Bedford estate never made and delivered a deed to Hood to perfect a conveyance of legal title, Hood lived on the property for some time after the death of her mother, and she paid...

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