SPRINGER v. COX

23251.

221 Ga. 673 (1966)

146 S.E.2d 753

SPRINGER v. COX, Executor.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheats, Parker & Webb, John Tye Ferguson, for appellant.

Neill Leach, Edenfield, Heyman & Sizemore, for appellee.


QUILLIAN, Justice.

1. We can not sanction the construction placed on the will by the trial judge that the testator had no intention to create a trust. "In the construction of wills precedents are of but little or doubtful value, since no two wills are alike and each is a law unto itself. . . It is the duty of the court to ascertain the intention of the testator, and give effect thereto, unless it violates some fixed rule of law, and in ascertaining the intention of...

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