Brown's Will

delivered ilie Opinion of tlie Court.'

Gustavus A. Brown, of Smithland, Kentucky, having, on the 10th of December, 1835, written and published his last will, in the first clause of which he emancipated his slaves, afterwards, in the presence of a credible witness, carefully cut off so much of the paperas contained the other and succeeding devises or legacies, declaring at the time, that his purpose was to make another will at some future day respecting all his othei estate, but that, lest some accident might defeat his his intention to manumit his slaves, he had left unmutilated and intended…