Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-20
CIRCUIT COURr.
The williams Will Case Agai,

1 Inc williams Will case Again.
The Circuit Court met yesterday at 9
O'Clock, Judge NJ. NJ Brien, presiding. The
minutes were read and also the following
| order:
"The court hereby orders and appoints a
| special term of this court TO commence on
the fourth Monday in November The
| court, however, will not now order the ap-
| pointment or summoning of juries: but
court will open for the regular dispatch of
business, but no party will be forced to try
a cause at said special term, only such
causes as parties on both sides are ready and
consent to try, and all er pdrte business"
The roll Of attorneys was called and con-
siderable business disposed Of
The Williams will case, which excited
so much interest at the last term of the
court again came up. Mrs. Cinthia 2.
Williams made her will in this State. She
and her husband then went to Philadelphia
and were there at her death. Her will was
probated in common form in Pennsylvania
and was brought here to be probated in
solemn form, as her real property was here
and most of her personal, but the probate
was contested, and at the trial it was decided
that undue influence had been used IN
the procurement of the will and it was
therefore broken. The case comes before
the Court now on application for manda-
mus to compel the Judge of the County
Court to permit to be recorded an anthem
ticated copy of the will as probated in
Pennsylvania, claiming in the argument
that the law of the domicil of party con-
trolls in the disposition of personal pro-
perry.
That Mrs. Williams domicil was in
Pennsylvania, and that the probate of the
will there was good in disposing of her
personal property, and that the decision
against abe will here only affected that
part of the will which the law required
should be probated here, viz: that as to
real property.
1t was claimed on the other side that a
mandamus could only be to compel an
officer to do what it was his legal duty to
do. That any one interested to contest the
validity of will to be registered here
from an authenticated copy, may do so
Just az if it had been first offered for pro-
bate here, and that the decision upon the
contest of this will had the effect to make
it null and void, and, therefore, the County
Court was tight in not allowing it to be re-
glstereu.
The case is set for full hearing on the
application for mandamus on the Tuesday
after the fourth Monday in November.
The Court adjourned until the next reg
ular term, which will commence on the
fourth Monday in January.
The following has been handed Us for
publication
NASHVILLE, Oct 10, 1867.-We, the
undersigned, jurors of the Circuit Court of
Davidson county, (panel No. y, acknowl-
edge with pleasure the courtesies and in
diligence of his Hon. NJ. NJ. Brien and his
accomplished clerk, D. c. Love, as we'll as
the entire bar, during the protracted term
just closed
P. NJ. Bailey, NJ. Sulzbacher,
Thos. L. Skeggs, A. T. Carl,
j. W. Bigley, Geo. W. CHISHOLM,
B. F. Myres, Kindred Ray
A. Price, G. W. Spain,
G. W. Morphey, L. D. Cover.
If you want to see the new arrival of
Dress Goods, Cloaks and Shawls, at greatly
reduced prices, go to
CHAs. RICHHEIIER & Co.'s,
46 College St, one door from Union.
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