Legal Opinion

In Re Will of Cole

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided March 1, 1916PublishedCited by 17 opinions

Appeal by caveators from Devin, J., at October Term, 1915, of Lee.

1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.

The paper-writing purporting to be the will of Duncan Cole and Georgia S. Cole, his wife, is as follows;

We give and bequeath to the Methodist Orphanage, situated at Raleigh, North Carolina, all our real and personal property after paying all our just debts and giving a decent burial and headstones to our graves.

This 30 January, 1912. DuNCAN Cole.

Gboegia Cole.

Sanford, Dee County, N. C.

This will was probated in common form as the will of Duncan Cole.

The case was heard by the court below upon a “case agreed,” which sets out that said Duncan Cole died 18 October, 1912, without issue, his wife,…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. In Re Davis' WillSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897
  2. In re Will of JenkinsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1911

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Graser v. GraserTexas Supreme Court · 1948
  2. In Re Will of SpinksCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1970
  3. Olive v. BiggsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1970
  4. In Re Estate of HailSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1923
  5. Ginn v. . EdmundsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1917

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