Young v. Cook
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Probate Court of Lowndes county. Hon. Stephen A. Brown, judge. •On tbe 12th day of December, A. D. 1854, James Cook, the appellee, filed his petition in the court below against the appellant, as executor of the last will and testament of Robert Shotwell, deceased, and afterwards his amended petition, in which he alleged in substance, that in 1885, one Viranda Cook, his sister, died, after having first made and published her last will and testament, by which…
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Lowndes county. Hon. Stephen A. Brown, judge. •On tbe 12th day of December, A. D. 1854, James Cook, the appellee, filed his petition in the court below against the appellant, as executor of the last will and testament of Robert Shotwell, deceased, and afterwards his amended petition, in which he alleged in substance, that in 1885, one Viranda Cook, his sister, died, after having first made and published her last will and testament, by which said Robert Shotwell was appointed executor; that said Vi-randa gave him by will a negro girl, Lucretia, to be delivered…
1Opinion of the CourtFisheR, J.
This was a petition filed by the appellee against the appellant, as executor of Robert Shotwell, deceased, in the Probate Court of Lowndes county.
The petition alleges that Viranda Cook, having made her will, and appointed Robert Shotwell executor thereof, died in the early •part of the year 1835; that the said testatrix, by her said will, bequeathed to the petitioner, who was her brother, and at the time a minor, a certain slave, to be delivered to him on attaining his majority, with power in the said executor, if he thought it proper, to sell the said slave, and to place the money at…
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