101 Ark. App. 331 - Duke v. Shinpaugh’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “I, Calvin Leroy [sic] Shinpaugh, residing at 3275 N. Wagner Road, Fay-etteville, AR 72701, Being of sound mind and competent this 2fth Day of May 2005 date [sic]; I give to Emilia Duke one acre of land adjacent to the north of the one acre at the comer of Wagner Road and Weir Road. I also bequeath the household objects belonging to her mother and her father, James Duke, which consists [sic] of; two rocking chairs, a Black gum desk, a Morra-can [sic] tray, and various other objects of furniture and plants. Not included is an Acrosonic piano. I also give to her the contents of the bank box located in the Bank of Elkins, Elkins, AR, which belonged to Francis Shinpaugh, her mother. In the box are items such as; a seventeen hundreds [sic] coin, an ivory Buddha, a diamond ring and other items. Emilia has lived at 3275 N. Wagner Road for eight years. We invited her to live here. In the duration she was a caregiver for my wife Francis for four years at six to eight hours a day with no holidays. She has cleaned, maintained three acres, did landscaping and gardening and various other [sic] tasks. Emilia, at the time of this will, was a twenty-four hour caregiver to Francis, an eighty-five year old stroke patient. Emilia changed her diaper, spoon-fed her, lifted her, changed her clothes, gave her sponge baths and all personal hygiene. She is also doing the yard work, running errands, cooking, washing dishes and at the time of this writing, taking us to doctors appointments. In the durat”

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   e.g. Duke v. Shinpaugh