JORDAN, Justice.
This is an appeal in a will construction case in which the trial court held that the devise of certain real estate "fails because an ademption by extinction has taken place."
At issue is Code Ann. § 113-817 which in pertinent part is as follows: "A legacy is adeemed or destroyed, wholly or in part,... when the testator conveys to another the specific property bequeathed, and does not afterward become possessed of the same, or otherwise...
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