Egleston v. Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition and intervention. Before Judge Pendleton. Pulton superior court. August 25, 1916. The Trust Company of Georgia, as executor of the will of Thomas Egleston, deceased, filed its petition for construction of certain items of the will and codicil, and for general direction.
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Equitable petition and intervention. Before Judge Pendleton. Pulton superior court. August 25, 1916. The Trust Company of Georgia, as executor of the will of Thomas Egleston, deceased, filed its petition for construction of certain items of the will and codicil, and for general direction. DuBose Egleston filed an intervention in which he insisted that the codicil worked a revocation as to item seven of the will; but that the codicil itself was too indefinite and uncertain in meaning to be legally enforced as to the property referred to in items seven and thirteen, and that as to this property…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Thomas Egleston, a wealthy bachelor residing in the city of Atlanta, in November, 1912, executed his last will and testament. In August, 1915, while ill, and about to undergo an operation in a Philadelphia hospital, he executed a codicil. He died February 6, 1916, leaving no brother or sister, or father or mother.
1. A search of reported cases would probably fail to disclose another such testamentary document. The writer doubts if this will has ever been surpassed in its catholicity of charity, of loving remembrance of friendship, and evidences of that most…
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