Crawford v. Carlisle
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Houston County; H. A. Pearce, Judge. Bill by Dorothy Carlisle, by next friend, against J. L. Crawford and R. D. Crawford, as executor, and others, to remove and administer the estate in the chancery court, to construe a will, and for other purposes.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Houston County; H. A. Pearce, Judge. Bill by Dorothy Carlisle, by next friend, against J. L. Crawford and R. D. Crawford, as executor, and others, to remove and administer the estate in the chancery court, to construe a will, and for other purposes. From the decree rendered, the respondents appeal. - The following is the will, leaving out preliminary matters: “Item 2. I hereby appoint and make my two sons, J. D. Crawford and R. D. Crawford, my executors to carry out all the conditions, terms and stipulations of this my last will and testament and to do and perform…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The bill is by a minor granddaughter of testator for construction of the will of J. R. Crawford, who died April 9, 1918, and. whose will, executed on September 27, 1917, was admitted to probate on June 10, 1918.
It is averred that some provisions in the will are of doubtful import; that the children and more than three grandchildren of the testator were living at the date of his death, one of whom is complainant; that testator died more than 10 years prior to the end of the year 1928, leaving both real and personal' property sought to be charged, de: vised, and bequeathed by his will,…
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