Eagle's Case

Bradford, S.

The testator died oh September 9, 1851. At the time of his decease, William Eagle, one of his sons and a legatee named in his will, had been absent between five and six years; and the question is now presented whether he died before or after his father the testator.

It appears that William Eagle was born in 1822, and from the age of sixteen followed the sea as a mariner. He first made a whaling voyage to the Pacific, and, although absent *219from home for four years, does not seem to have been heard. from during that period. His subsequent voyages were principally to the coast of South…