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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 179015" data-attributes="member: 102">That&#039;s right. At that particular time when she said &quot;Oh, Jock, n0&quot;, there was nothing that had been stated regarding a contest. The last things which had been said were: &quot;Ewing Oil can have only one man at the helm and that&#039;s got to be the man that wants it the most.&quot;&nbsp; It&#039;s always good to hear different people&#039;s interpretations of a scene. Did Miss Ellie already think the will was alluding to a contest? Maybe. You can look at it either way.&nbsp; A contest between two sons, while great for dramatic purposes, is a very uncommon, unusual way to set things up in a will. Simply leaving the controlling interest to one son and minority interests to the other sons is a much more common, more standard way of doing things. That makes me think that when Harv read &quot;Ewing Oil can have only one man at the helm and that&#039;s got to be the man that wants it the most&quot;&nbsp; Miss Ellie said what she did because she was afraid Jock was choosing to have JR run it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 179015, member: 102"] That's right. At that particular time when she said "Oh, Jock, n0", there was nothing that had been stated regarding a contest. The last things which had been said were: "Ewing Oil can have only one man at the helm and that's got to be the man that wants it the most." It's always good to hear different people's interpretations of a scene. Did Miss Ellie already think the will was alluding to a contest? Maybe. You can look at it either way. A contest between two sons, while great for dramatic purposes, is a very uncommon, unusual way to set things up in a will. Simply leaving the controlling interest to one son and minority interests to the other sons is a much more common, more standard way of doing things. That makes me think that when Harv read "Ewing Oil can have only one man at the helm and that's got to be the man that wants it the most" Miss Ellie said what she did because she was afraid Jock was choosing to have JR run it. [/QUOTE]

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