Williams v. Mower
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Norton, J., Newberry, After stating the case, the Circuit decree was as follows : After the findings of the jury as above, the whole case was heard by me.
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Before Norton, J., Newberry, After stating the case, the Circuit decree was as follows : After the findings of the jury as above, the whole case was heard by me. I am satisfied that there has been no settlement and division of the estate of John H. Williams, deceased, between James W. Williams and Robert G. Williams, and that Robert G. Williams has received no part of the eight thousand dollars entered in the inventory as “cash on hand, United States bonds and railroad stocks,” except the one thousand dollars of railroad stocks, leaving seven thousand dollars of said sum in the estate of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McIver.
John H. Williams, having duly made and executed his last will and testament, departed this life on the 2nd of June, 1876. By his will, after some pecuniary legacies and a specific devise to his grandchildren, he gave the larger portion of his estate to his two sons, the plaintiff and the defendant's intestate. These two sons, Robert G. Williams and James W. Williams, were appointed executors and they duly qualified as such, and in August, 1876, made and returned into the proper office an inventory and appraisement of the personal…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Administrators of Darby v. RiceSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1820
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