In re Will of Jenkins
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Joseph S. Adams, J., at January Term, 1911, of Halifax. Tbis is a caveat to a paper-writing which purports to be the last will and testament of ~W. T. Jenkins. Upon issues submitted to them, the jury found that the script and every part thereof is in the handwriting of the said Jenkins. It was unattested. The jury also found that the paper-writing, which had been proved in common form, is the will of W. T. Jenkins.
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Appeal from Joseph S. Adams, J., at January Term, 1911, of Halifax. Tbis is a caveat to a paper-writing which purports to be the last will and testament of ~W. T. Jenkins. Upon issues submitted to them, the jury found that the script and every part thereof is in the handwriting of the said Jenkins. It was unattested. The jury also found that the paper-writing, which had been proved in common form, is the will of W. T. Jenkins. The evidence tended to show that Jenkins died in May, 1909, and after his death a search was made for a will by Levi Browning, who married his niece, and had lived in…
1Opinion of the Court
"Walker, J.,
after stating tbe case: There was sufficient evidence in tbe case to prove that tbe script was found in tbe drawer with policies of insurance, some of which bad expired, and that it had been placed there by W. T. Jenkins, in an envelope upon which be bad written the. word “Important,” and *434that Levi Browning, when he found it, immediately took it from the envelope and read it to his wife, and the next morning she read it. In the paper, the testator devised and bequeathed his property to his nieces, Bessie M. Liles and Carrie E. Browning, wife of Levi Browning, who seem to have had…
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