7 Ohio App. 2d 27 - Frederick v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
September 1999
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 75 Ohio App. 451 - Everhard v. Brown · 116 Ohio App. 100 - Lane v. Lane · 52 Ohio App. 124 - Caldwell v. Tax Commission
Most-quoted passages
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“The general rule is that the testator must be presumed to have used words in his will in their ordinary or primary sense and meaning.... ‘Niece’ and ‘nephew’ in their primary and ordinary sense mean the immediate descendants of the brothers and sisters of the person named.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waters v. Hawkins
How this case has been treated — in progress
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