Tarver v. Tarver
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the district court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama. The appellees, citizens of the state of Georgia, filed their bill in the district court of ihe United States for the southern district of Alabama against the appellant, Mason Gilliam, and John Gilliam, hex' son,-stating that they and the defendants were the heirs at law of Richard Tarver, who died in the year 1827 ; that the deceased in 1819 made a will, which they assert to be a…
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APPEAL from the district court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama. The appellees, citizens of the state of Georgia, filed their bill in the district court of ihe United States for the southern district of Alabama against the appellant, Mason Gilliam, and John Gilliam, hex' son,-stating that they and the defendants were the heirs at law of Richard Tarver, who died in the year 1827 ; that the deceased in 1819 made a will, which they assert to be a conditional will, and which they exhibit; which they also state was not considered as a will by Riehard Tarver at the time of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
This case comes up on appeal from the district court' of the United States for the southern, district of Alabama.
The pleadings are very inartificially drawn, and do not, probably, present the case in such a manner as to enable the'court to dispose of all the questions intended to be brought , under consideration.
The bill sets out that Richard Tarver, late of the county of Dallas, and state of Alabama, departed this life,-in that county, in the year 1827, leaving at the time of his.death a'large real and personal estate, and leaving three sisters and the defendant, Benjamin Tarver, his sole…
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