Bright v. Cudahy Packing Co.

Grice, Justice.

Joseph Jefferson, not the actor who won applause of thousands by his masterful impersonation of Washington Irving’s character, Bip Van Winkle, but a person by the same name, though less known perhaps to fortune and to fame, died a resident of Dougherty County, Georgia. Matters connected with his will have been acted upon officially by every one — eight in all— who have occupied the office of judge of the superior courts of the Albany Circuit for the last quarter of a century, and longer. In the present record are orders entered by Judges Harrell, Wilson, Bell, Custer, Cobb, and…