Haysley v. Rogers

MILLIKEN, Justice.

This is ,an appeal from a judgment which construed the holographic will of Ella F. Thomas as devising a fee-simple title to her real estate to the appellee, Willie C. Rogers, her brother-in-law, with whom she made her home. The will was dated February 15, 1946, and was probated on March 20, 1946. The pertinent portion of the will reads:

“I give, bequeath and devise all of my estate, real, personal and mixed, of every kind and description and where-ever situated, which I may own or have the right to dispose of at the time of my death, as follows:

“I give my brother, J. Walter…