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CARSON v. HYATT

118 U.S. 279 (1886)

CARSON v. HYATT & Another. SAME v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 10, 1886.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.S. Young and Mr. James Lowndes for plaintiff in error and appellant.

Mr. Edward McCrady, Jr., for defendants in error and appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The records in these cases show that William A. Carson, a citizen of South Carolina, died on the 17th of August, 1856, leaving a will by which he devised the bulk of his property, real and personal, to his executors, Alexander Robertson and John F. Blacklock, substantially in trust for his widow, Caroline Carson, and his sons, William Carson and James P. Carson, but with a power of sale in the executors....

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