Biggers v. Gladin

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The will under which the petitioner claims is not. drawn with precise legal language which is usually employed in more formal wills, but is a nuncupative one, recording the testamentary wishes as expressed to witnesses to the instrument. Nevertheless, in so far as it is not against public policy and law it will be given full effect according to the intention of the testator, and this intention must be ascertained by taking the will,, as it is said, “by the four corners” and giving to all parts of it. consideration. Shoup v.…