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Skriven 2006-03-28 05:42:14 av George Pope (1:153/715.1275)
   Kommentar till text 3621 av Greg Sears (3:633/104)
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On (07 Mar 06) Greg Sears wrote to George Pope...
 GS>  GS>   "If I knew what his last words were, I could divide his
 GS> possessions
 GS>    > better among your children and yourself," the lawyer told her.
 GS>    >
 GS>    >   "Very well," said the widow, "If it will help, he said, `Don't
 GS> try
 GS>    > to scare me, you couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with that
 GS> gun.'

 GS>  GP> So did she get the money?
 GS>
 GS>  WHAT money?

Try to keep up -- YOU said it was about dividing up his
possessions(which normally includes his money). . .

So, did she get the "money"(possessions)?

Wills. . .
Mine's going to say: "Being of sound mind, I spent it all before I
died."

Others':


These make you wonder about the phrase, "being of sound mind."


Ms. Eleanor Ritchey, the unmarried granddaughter of the
founder of Quaker State Oil, died in 1968 with an estate
worth around $12 million. According to Scott Bieber in Trusts
and Estates magazine: "Under her will, she left over 1,700
pairs of shoes and 1,200 boxes of stationery to the Salvation
Army. The rest of the estate went to the dogs." Real dogs,
he means - a pack of 150 strays that Ritchey had adopted as
pets.

When American patriot Patrick Henry died, everything he
owned was left to his wife - as long as she never married
again. If she did, he forfeited the whole thing. "It would
make me unhappy," he explained, "to feel I have worked all
my life only to support another man's wife!" She remarried
anyway.




Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, tried to
leave his birthday. He willed it to a good friend who'd
complained that since she was born on Christmas, she never
got to have a real birthday celebration.



An attorney in France left $10,000 to "a local madhouse."
The gentleman declared that "it was simply an act of
restitution to his clients."


An Australian named Francis R. Lord left one shilling to his
wife "for tram fare so she can go somewhere and drown her-
self." The inheritance was never claimed.


Sandra West, a wealthy 37-year-old Beverly Hills socialite,
left most of her $3 million estate to her brother - provided
he made sure she was buried "in my lace nightgown and my
Ferrari, with the seat slanted comfortably." That's how she
was buried. The Ferrari was surrounded with concrete so no
one would be tempted to dig it up and drive away.


A woman in Cherokee County, North Carolina left her entire
estate to God. The court instructed the county sheriff to
find the beneficiary. A few days later, the sheriff returned
and submitted his report: "After due and diligent search, God
cannot be found in this county."


Edgar Bergen, famed ventriloquist, left $10,000 to the
Actor's Fund of America - so they could take care of his
dummy, Charlie McCarthy, and put him in a show once a year.
They went along with it.



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