DENNY, Justice.
The question posed for determination is, where a testator makes a will, making his wife the sole beneficiary, and then subsequently has a child born, does a codicil executed by the testator subsequent to the birth of the child constitute a republication of his will?
The overwhelming weight of authority is that a duly executed codicil operates as a republication of the original will and makes it speak from the date of the execution of the codicil...
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