The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12
70 BREAK The WILL.
,r1vES OF THE LATE YOUNG
HD HARRIS ALLEGE UNDUE
INFLUENCE.
u,ra away All His Income. Although
. had an Income of $4,000 Year,
uoDid Not Save ANY of 1t in His
Last Year.

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yoDid Not Save ANY of 1t in His
Last Year.
,rypys GA. June 8.-A big legal
~ will come up this month in Clarke's
,r+ Of ordinary over the will of the
w. INDIE Young L. G. Harris, and it
,omises to be one of the most interest
cases of the kind fever called in
ID neorcia court From the exalted char
..+ar of the testator, his long and useful
rto az citizen, philanthropist and a
rbristian. the contest over his last will
ND testament will attract attention all
over Georgia
The cayeat to the will has been fled
With Ordinary Harrington by Messrs.
b r,mnkin e. Burnett, of this city, and
r,dce J. H. Query, of Dawson, Ga. 1t
comes from relatives of Judge Harris,
The leading caveator being Mr.. Charles
& NJ Harris, of Dawson.
The propounders of the will are
Nessrs. W. W. Thomas and A. E. Griff-
III. executors, and are represented by
Colonel j. J. Strickland, of this city and
n Hon. n. j. Hammond, of Atlanta. The
ease comes up before Judge S. NJ. Her
riruton next week and will be attended
nv large number of people, as the
estate involved amounts to about eighty
81 thousand dollars.
The will which is to be contested was
drawn by Judge Harris himself about
wear before his death and while in his
eighty-second year. tits clearly, logically
and legibly written and signed in bold,
strong characters. About one-third of the
estate was bequeathed equally to Emory
college and Young Harris institute. Some
few small requests were left to two or
three lady relatives and the remainder
was distributed among a number OF
Z religious and educational societies, both
north and south. The will recites the
fact that the testator bad during the five
years preceding his death distributed
about sixty thousand dollars among
relatives, chiefly those of his wife.
Now the grounds alleged by the cavea-
tors as reasons for breaking the will are
chiefly these: l. It is alleged that Judge
Harris was unduly Influenced by two
lady relatives. 3 1t is alleged that he
was misinformed as to the true feeling
existing between a number Of his rela
tiyes and himself. 3. 1t is alleged that
he was possessed OF a monomania to
endow religious and educational soci-
cites and schools of all descriptions.
81 Upon these propositions the caveators
will set to work to break the will.
Judge Harris, whose will is to be con-
tested, was one of the most prominent
slmembers of the Methodist church in
Georgia. He gave literally to all relig-
iOus movements and built the first
missionary church ever raised upon the
soil of the oriental empire. He also gave
qaite literally 20 educational institu-
lions, establishing Young Harris college
y IN Towns county for the benefit of poor
young men.
he had a great desire to give away all
be made and although his annual lncom
TaS over ten thousand dollars, it is
doubtfll whether during the last fifteen
years Of life he laid up one dollar to his
accumulated principal, He was for
twenty seven yeprs president of the
Southern Mutual Insurance Company
Rnd during his life it was that this great
company achieved it's greatest work.
The caveators detract nothing from the
good deeds of the generous and noble
hearted dead, but will attempt to estab-
llSh their proposition that the will to be
pFobated is not valid one and that it
Should be set aside,