Owen v. Burks

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Turner

Affirming.

Mrs. Cleopatra Chapline died in Hart County in 1895, having first made her will; and the construction of that will is the only thing involved in this appeal. The third, fifth and sixth clauses thereof are as follows, to-wit:

“3. I give and bequeath to my brother Jordon Owen the sum of One Thousand Dollars, in trust for the use and benefit of my son Lee O. Burks to be held by said trustee and by him invested in real estate as soon as same can be properly done and advantageously done, and said land to be by him held as aforesaid in trust for the use…