Jaudon v. Ducker

Citations

• 27 S.C. 295
• 3 S.E. 465
• 1887 S.C. LEXIS 134

Syllabus

<p>1. In construing a will, the first and great object is to ascertain the intention from the paper itself in the light of the circumstances surrounding the testator when he wrote it.</p> <p>' 2. A testator, possessed of an estate consisting almost entirely of lands, bequeathed three pecuniary legacies and devised a small part of his realty, and then bequeathed and devised the “rest and residue of his estate, real and personal,” to other parties. Held, that the pecuniary legacies were a charge upon the residuary estate.</p>