Friedman v. Cohen

Quillian, Justice.

The sole question for decision in this case is whether the provision added to Code § 113-408 by the act of 1952 (Ga. L. 1952, pp. 196, 197), that a total divorce of the testator when no provision of the will is made in contemplation of such event shall be a revocation of the will, is applicable in a case when both the execution of the will and the subsequent divorce occurred prior to the passage of the amendatory act. The text of 57 Am. Jur. 370, § 535, states: “A statute providing that the divorce of the testator subsequent to the execution of the will revokes the will as…