Court Opinion

ID: 9811444
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:20:57.368668+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:14:23.655228
License: Public Domain

Sea well, J".,
concurring in dissent: In the case at bar, I think we may indulge the presumption against intestacy without feeling we have resorted to a merely mechanical device. In that event, I think we ought not to permit the expressions in the will' — jumbled as they are — to cancel out the testate intent if it can be reasonably discerned. As as alternative to that result, I believe the view taken by Mr. Justice Barnhill is the more reasonable interpretation of what the testator wanted to do with his property.
He may not have been as consistent as he was insistent, but I get the impression that he wanted the land to go to his own and his wife’s kin, and so vote.