Iglehart v. Iglehart
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing oil an appeal by tbe defendants from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a suit in equity to construe a will. Tbe Court in tbe opinion stated tbe case as follows: This is an appeal from a decree bolding valid tbe last will and testament of Annie E. I. Andrews, and its provisions making certain devises and bequests to tbe Greenwood Cemetery Company of New York.
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Hearing oil an appeal by tbe defendants from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a suit in equity to construe a will. Tbe Court in tbe opinion stated tbe case as follows: This is an appeal from a decree bolding valid tbe last will and testament of Annie E. I. Andrews, and its provisions making certain devises and bequests to tbe Greenwood Cemetery Company of New York. Tbe record discloses.that tbe deceased, a resident of tbe District of Columbia, died in 1903, leaving a will dated March 19, 1903. Tbe amount of the estate was something over $10,-000, of which $3,000…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Duele
The assigned errors are three in number, and relate respectively to the validity of the devise of the real estate to the cemetery company, the validity of the residuary bequest, and the validity of the provision for the erection of the monument.
The latter will be first passed upon. There seems to be no question that the decedent’s husband was buried in Greenwood cemetery, and no trouble arises in locating the lot. There is no trouble in carrying out the provision of the will providing for the erection of the monument, and no difficulty in upholding the clause relating to it and separating it…
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- Bates v. BatesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
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- Congregational Unitarian Society v. HaleAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
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