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S.C. NAT'L BANK OF CHARLESTON v. COPELAND

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248 S.C. 203 (1966)

149 S.E.2d 615

The SOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK OF CHARLESTON (COLUMBIA BRANCH), Executor of the Estate of Sarah Linda Welch, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Eva Goggans COPELAND, Eloise Welch Wright, Crozier Welch and Drayton N. Barksdale, Respondents-Appellants. The SOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK OF CHARLESTON (COLUMBIA BRANCH), Executor of the Estate of Sarah Linda Welch, deceased, Daniel R. Bullard, Wilfred Doherty, Lester Settegast and Roger Wolfe, as Trustees of The Robert A. Welch Foundation (formerly The Houston Foundation), Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Eva Goggans COPELAND, Eloise Welch Wright, Crozier Welch and Drayton N. Barksdale, Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

July 20, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, of Greenville, for Respondents-Appellants in Will Case.

Messrs. Roberts, Jennings & Thomas, of Columbia, for Petitioner-Respondent, in Will Case.

Messrs. Roberts, Jennings & Thomas, of Columbia, for Plaintiffs-Appellants, in Construction Case.

Messrs. Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, of Greenville, for Respondents, in Construction Case.

Messrs. Roberts, Jennings & Thomas, of Columbia, for Plaintiffs-Appellants, in Construction Case, in Reply.

Messrs. Waggoner Carr, Attorney General of Texas, Hawthorne Phillips, First Assistant Attorney General, T.B. Wright, Executive Assistant Attorney General, and J. Arthur Sandlin, Assistant Attorney General, of Austin, Texas, for Amicus Curiae, in Construction Case.

Messrs. Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, of Greenville, for Respondents, in Construction case, in Reply to Amicus Curiae Brief.

July 20, 1966.

MOSS, Chief Justice.

Sarah Linda Welch, hereinafter referred to as Linda, a resident of Columbia, South Carolina, died testate on September 8, 1963, leaving a Will dated December 27, 1949, and a codicil thereto dated May 25, 1951. In the codicil Linda named the South Carolina National Bank of Charleston (Columbia Branch) as executor of her last will and testament. The executor proved the will and codicil in common form in the Probate Court of...

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