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Georgia, Supreme Court, Athens : Ingram and Ingram ; by their next friend; v Fraley, executor, November 1859

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Georgia : Supreme Court, 1859.
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A bill filed by the Ingrams to compel Fraley to account with them for the estate of LaFayette Ingram, deceased, and for him to pay over their share of the estate, they being the children of Ingram's late brother. Fraley maintained that the entire estate had been left to him. Fraley and the testator had been brothers-in-law and had farmed together, having jointly bought several families of slaves whom Ingram in his will expressed himself desirous of keeping together. These slaves included a family of mulattoes, to which testator, for reasons not necessary to be repeated, had a strong affection. The court refused to hear testimony from several witnesses that Ingram had said nothing about leaving his property to Fraley and desired to leave it to his sister's children. The jury found for Fraley and the Ingrams excepted. The Supreme Court found that the wording of the will indicated the testator's desire to establish a trust, without their pretending to know or even to guess what that trust was. Fraley was therefore to take nothing beneficially and the estate was to be distributed among the deceased's next of kin. Two sixths would therefore go to the Ingram sisters, the testator's nieces.
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Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the Georgia Archives.
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Material sourced from the Georgia Archives
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