Fatheree v. Lawrence
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Probate Court of Copiah county. Hon. J. Millsaps, judge. A full statement of the case will be found in the opinion of the court. I. It is proper, at the outset, to notice what are some- of the consequences to follow, if this paper will be declared a will. The writing gives James Lawrence, the person now demanding probate, “ a certain negro girl named Harriet.”
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Copiah county. Hon. J. Millsaps, judge. A full statement of the case will be found in the opinion of the court. I. It is proper, at the outset, to notice what are some- of the consequences to follow, if this paper will be declared a will. The writing gives James Lawrence, the person now demanding probate, “ a certain negro girl named Harriet.” It is a fact admitted, that Thomas H. 0. Lawrence, the intestate of defendants, had this slave in his possession, at his death and for several years before, under a bill of sale, executed in February, 1840, by W. H.…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
This is an appeal from the order of the Probate Court of Copiah county, admitting to probate an instrument of writing, purporting on its face to be the last will and testament of Elizabeth Lawrence, deceased, which bore date the 7th September, 1833.
The paper was offered for probate at the July Term, 1856, of that court, by the present appellee, who is one of the legatees named in it; and the application was resisted by the appellants, as administrators of Thomas D. C. Lawrence, who claimed the property bequeathed by the will to the appellee. Upon the investigation of the case, the material…
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