Means v. Ury.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
IN the matter of tbe will of Cameline Means, beard by Judge M. H. Justice upon an issue of devisavit vel non at tbe September Term, 1905, of tbe Superior Court of Cabae-kus., Erom a judgment in favor of tbe caveator, Lafayette Ury, tbe propounder, Edward Means, appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Cameline Means, while tbe wife of Epbriam Means, made ber will, and some time thereafter, being a widow, married Jason Carr, and during sucb coverture verbally declared said paper writing to be ber last will and testament without any further execution thereof, in accordance with tbe statute.
The court below adjudged tbe paper writing not to be tbe last will and testament of Cameline Means, upon tbe ground that it was revoked by ber subsequent marriage, and that ber verbal declarations could not constitute a re-execution and republi cation of it. We think tbe ruling sound.
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