Pinckard v. McCoy
Supreme Court of Georgia
Caveat, from Monroe Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers, March Term, 1857. This case came up on appeal from the decision of the Court of Ordinary of Monroe county, admitting to probate and record the following instrument of writing, as the last will and testament of Thomas McCoy, deceased, viz: Georgia, 1 In the name of God, amen.
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Caveat, from Monroe Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers, March Term, 1857. This case came up on appeal from the decision of the Court of Ordinary of Monroe county, admitting to probate and record the following instrument of writing, as the last will and testament of Thomas McCoy, deceased, viz: Georgia, 1 In the name of God, amen. I ThomMonroe County. / as McCoy of the county and State aforesaid, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make, publish, and declare the following, to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others at any time heretofore made by rae ;…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benning, J.
delivering the opinion.
This Court is of the opinion, that this case does not differ in principle, from the case on Beall’s will, decided by this Court at Savannah, in January 1857. In that case, this Court decided that all of the emancipation parts of the will *31were void. It I as heard nothing in the argument of the present case, to make it think that, that decision was wrong. This Court, therefore, thinks that all of the emancipation parts of this will are void. Those parts are all of the third and fourth items, and that portion of the second which begins with the…
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