Flinn v. Frank
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Bill by Executor in the Nature of a Bill for Instructions.—The complainant was the executor and trustee under the will of William M. Parkin, deceased. It appeared that the testator had. made a last will and testament, bearing date July 31, 1891, and duly executed at Newport, New Castle County, where the testator then resided.
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Bill by Executor in the Nature of a Bill for Instructions.—The complainant was the executor and trustee under the will of William M. Parkin, deceased. It appeared that the testator had. made a last will and testament, bearing date July 31, 1891, and duly executed at Newport, New Castle County, where the testator then resided. In and by that will, after directing the payment of his debts and funeral expenses out of his personal estate, and bequeathing to his wife certain personal chattels, he devised to his wife for life his “brick house and lot of land on Market Street, Newport, Delaware,…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor
considered that the paper writing dated July 31, 1891, and proved in New Castle County as the last will and testament of William M. Parkin, deceased, and the paper writing executed by him in England, under date of January 9, 1893, proved in England as his last will and testament, together constitute the last will and testament of the said William M. Parkin, deceased, it appearing that the execution of the paper writing proved as a will in England is a sufficient execution under our own statute; and he was of opinion that it appears, upon consideration of the entire will,…
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