Stringfellow v. Harman

Wyatt, Justice.

“In the construction of all legacies, the court shall seek diligently for the intention of the testator and give effect to the.same as far as it may be consistent with the rules of law . . ” Code, § 113-806. “Every will is a thing to itself. It is emphatically not only sui juris but sui generis. Its terms are its own law, and the application of that law by construction of itself — of the statute which the testator himself enacted, to the contestants for its bounty, is the plain duty of the court.” Olmstead v. Dunn, 72 Ga. 850. “Precedents, or adjudged cases, are of but little…