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Remarkable Will Tales From Odds and Ends of Cards
A London judge recalls the Pack of Cards case where a paralysed testatrix used cards bearing relatives’ names and estate items to dictate her will. Other odd bequests include a dying man writing his will on a shirt cuff, shipwrecked sailors using scraps, Tolstoy’s stump of a tree will, and a pants sale yielding unexpected cash. The item ends with Rep Ernest Ackerman’s globe trotting and art-collecting after years abroad.
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Bargrave Deane
London Answers
Testatrix
Tolstoy
Seine
Joseman
Congress
Ernest St Ackerman
Ackerman
Foreign Affairs Committee
Collee
Mfr
Globe Washington Star