115 Ind. App. 135 - Gardner v. Grossman’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 1985
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Allen v. Craft · Outland v. Bowen · Doe on demise of Patterson v. Jackman · Smedley v. Walden · Conover v. Cade
Most-quoted passages
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“"Nothing is better settled than that the intention of the testatrix, if consistent with law, is paramount and should prevail. In determining that intent, however, we are not permitted the exercise of a mere arbitrary discretion in conjecturing what words the testatrix would have used or what form of disposition she would have adopted had she been advised as to the legal effect of the words actually employed. That would be to make a will for her instead of construing that which she herself actually made." (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Merrill v. Wimmer
How this case has been treated — in progress
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