W. T. and J. K. Redmond v. . Burroughs .
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Bill, for certain legacies, dismissed, pro forma, bj-Tourgee, ■J., at Fall Term 1868, of the Court of Equity for ORANGE-; Whereupon the plaintiffs appealed.
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Bill, for certain legacies, dismissed, pro forma, bj-Tourgee, ■J., at Fall Term 1868, of the Court of Equity for ORANGE-; Whereupon the plaintiffs appealed. The bill alleged that one William N. Pratt, late of Orange county had died in 1861, leaving a large estate of personalty and realty which he disposed of by a will dated in 1855, and duly proved by the defendant Burroughs as executor; that by the will, among other things he gave to the plaintiff W. T. Redmond, several tracts of land, a gold watch and other articles of personal property, and also (as follows) “ the sum of $2,000, to be put…
1Opinion of the CourtReade, J.
1. The testator bequeathed to “W. T. Redmond $2,000, to be put at interest for the purpose of giving him a classical education” with the direction “that said $2,000 shall be expended, and that he shall take his course at the University of North Carolina.”
W. T. Redmond was some eleven years of age at the date of the will, and the testator lived some ten or twelve years thereafter. W. T. Redmond never received the education designed for him (although the testator did send him to school until he received the rudiments of an English education,) and the $2,000 was never expended. He is now a grown…
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