Kerr v. Girdwood.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by J". P. Kerr and another, executors of the will of Laura A. Girdwood, against George Girdwood and others, for a construction of the will, heard by Judge Fred Moore, at the March Term, 1905, of the Superior Oourt of BuncoMbe County. From the judgment rendered, certain of the defendants, to-wit, Mrs. Salena M. Eoberts and E. S. Clayton and wife, Bethel Clayton, appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Mrs. Laura A .GirdwOod died during 1904, leaving a last will and testament executed by her as a holograph will and dated December 26, 1903. The correctness of the judgment appealed from depends upon the efficacy of a certain clause in said will, as a testamentary disposition of the property named in it, which clause is as follows:
“I wish to record the wishes of my darling husband as expressed to me in his last illness. He felt that he had left me well provided for, and was so thankful to think so, and wanted me to have exclusive use of all property, and everything so long as I live. At my…
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