Vinson v. Vinson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Bill in equity, in Twiggs Superior Court, and decision by Judge O. A. Lochrane, at Chambers, on the 16th June, 1862. James Vinson died testate, in the county of Twiggs, in the year 1848, and his will was duly proved and recorded, and letters testamentary issued to the executors nominated in the will, to-wit: Benjamin F. Vinson and Joseph Blackshear.
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Bill in equity, in Twiggs Superior Court, and decision by Judge O. A. Lochrane, at Chambers, on the 16th June, 1862. James Vinson died testate, in the county of Twiggs, in the year 1848, and his will was duly proved and recorded, and letters testamentary issued to the executors nominated in the will, to-wit: Benjamin F. Vinson and Joseph Blackshear. By the will the testator gave to his wife fifty acres of land and certain household furniture, negro man and woman, a horse, and some hogs and cattle, during her lifetime or widowhood, and at her death to be divided equally, as the rest of his…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Lumpkin, C. J., delivering the opinion.
It is difficult to ascertain with certainty the meaning of this will, and we need no other proof of the confusion of tongues of Babel than the language in which this will is written. Once the earth spake in holy tongue given to our progenitors at the creation. But pro peeoato dissentiones humanos— different speech came into the world. Hence, the many disagreements among men. The punishment at Babel is like Adam’s corruption, hereditary to us, and we never came under this rod, in the construction of a will, but we smart for our ancestors’…
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