Berry v. Hamilton

Judge Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Eliza Ann Hamilton died on the 9th day of August, 1844. At the time of her death she was about thirty five or six years of age, and unmarried. Two days previous to the day on which she died, she executed an instrument of writing, purporting to be her last will and testament, containing, among others, the following provisions, viz:

“ I will all my servants to be free, both those I ana entitled to as an heir of my father, Archibald Hamilton, deceased, at this time, and those that I will be entitled to, as an heir of my father, at my mother’s death,…