SMITH, Presiding Justice, for the Court.
¶ 1. In this estate case, we review a chancellor's finding that a testator's use of the term "then living issue" was intended to include adopted children. This Court must determine whether the phrase "then living issue" includes adopted children as beneficiaries to a class gift when the testator has used different language ("children, including adopted children") in the will to specifically include adopted children as...
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