Wood v. Owen
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Edwards. Paulding superior court. December 3, 1908.
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
The case before us furnishes a new illustration of the old statement that “no case upon a will has a brother/’ for no will which has come under our observation bears a very striking family resemblance to this one, — certainly not enough to cause them to have the appearance of testamentary doubles. We must *753look at this unique will in the light of its own terms. The plantation contained one hundred acres. The widow conveyed twenty of them to one of the children. The others are dissatisfied. It does not require any particular formula to create a precatory trust. In one ease where there was a…
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