Ford v. Thomas
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for direction. Before Judge Brinson. Richmond superior court. April term, 1899. Richard Tubman/of Richmond county, died in 1836, leaving a will, executed in 1833, in which, after making various bequests, — one of them to the Free School of the City of Augusta, to which he gave certain shares of stock, the annual interest thereof to be applied to its support,— he provided as follows: “I give and devise to my . . wife, Emily H. Tubman, the entire balance of my estate…
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Petition for direction. Before Judge Brinson. Richmond superior court. April term, 1899. Richard Tubman/of Richmond county, died in 1836, leaving a will, executed in 1833, in which, after making various bequests, — one of them to the Free School of the City of Augusta, to which he gave certain shares of stock, the annual interest thereof to be applied to its support,— he provided as follows: “I give and devise to my . . wife, Emily H. Tubman, the entire balance of my estate ... I do hereby constitute and appoint her my sole executrix of this my will, with the full hope and belief that she…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
The facts of this case will be found in the reporter’s statement of the same. We shall not deal with all the as*497signments of error contained in the hill of exceptions, as the view which we take of the case renders it unnecessary to do so. In this view, the questions raised by the petitioners in reference to the intervention filed-by the “Widows’Home” and certain citizens, and those in reference to the answer of the administrator of the estate of the residuary legatee, are not material. We shall deal, first with the main question, that is, whether the court erred in rejecting 'the scheme…
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