Roundtree v. Roundtree
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Cothran, J., Barnwell, March, 1886. The opinion states the case. The Circuit decree, omitting its statement of the facts, was as follows: No question seems to have been made as to the widow’s personalty given to her for life, if, indeed, any of it has survived the wear and tear of twenty-five years’ use and the wreck of Sherman’s march through that section in the early part of the year 1865. The real estate, consisting of the home place and the Killingsworth tract, in…
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Before Cothran, J., Barnwell, March, 1886. The opinion states the case. The Circuit decree, omitting its statement of the facts, was as follows: No question seems to have been made as to the widow’s personalty given to her for life, if, indeed, any of it has survived the wear and tear of twenty-five years’ use and the wreck of Sherman’s march through that section in the early part of the year 1865. The real estate, consisting of the home place and the Killingsworth tract, in all some eleven hundred acres, is the subject of contention. In regard to this the following questions arise: 1. Are…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McIver.
Sometime in the year 1860 William Roundtree, late of Barnwell County, in the State aforesaid, departed this life, having previously, to wit,-on January 12,1858, duly made and executed his last will and testament. At the time the will was executed the testator had a wife and seven children. He had previously lost four children, two of whom died *459childless and unmarried, and the other two having each left one child — one a son and the other a daughter. One of testator’s sons, James W. Roundtree, who wrote the will, and rvho had at the…
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