Galloway v. . Carter
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, tried before MacRae, J., at August Term, 1886, of Stokes Superior Court. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appealed. It appears that Robert Galloway died, in the County oí Rockingham, in the year 1832, leaving a last will and testament, which was duly proven, and the executors therein named, duly qualified as such.
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Civil ACTION, tried before MacRae, J., at August Term, 1886, of Stokes Superior Court. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appealed. It appears that Robert Galloway died, in the County oí Rockingham, in the year 1832, leaving a last will and testament, which was duly proven, and the executors therein named, duly qualified as such. The following is .a copy of the will: In the name of God, amen : I, Robert Galloway, of Valley Field, in Rockingham County, North Carolina, do make and publish this paper writing as my last will and testament, hereby expressly revoking all former wills by me made. I…
1Opinion of the Court
MeRejmoN, J.,
(after stating the facts). The will before us, to be interpreted, is orderly in its form, ' very clear and. intelligible — certainly in most respects — in its several provisions, and, of itself, affords evidence of an able and skillful draughtsman By it, the testator carefully disposed of all his large and valuable estate, embracing much real and personal property, certainly and exclusively to his own immediate family, consisting of his wife and seven children, thus manifesting a settled purpose to devote his property, as far as practicable, to persons of his own blood.
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