Pratt v. Hargreaves
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom tlie chancery court of Harrison county. IIoN. NathaN 0. Hill, Chancellor. Pratt, the appellant, was the complainant or petitioner in the court below; Hargreaves and others, the appellees, were defendants there.
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Prom tlie chancery court of Harrison county. IIoN. NathaN 0. Hill, Chancellor. Pratt, the appellant, was the complainant or petitioner in the court below; Hargreaves and others, the appellees, were defendants there. The litigation between the parties over the will in controversy has twice before been in the supreme court, and while the opinion in the present case states the facts upon which it is based, a fuller history of the controversy can be found in the two previous decisions, reported, Pratt v. Hargreaves, 75 Miss., 897, and Pratt v. Hargreaves, 76 Miss., 955. The court below refused to…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
George K. Pratt filed his petition to the August term, 1899, of the chancery court of Harrison county, seeking the probate of the last will and testament of Mrs. Louisa J. Bidwell, deceased. From the petition demurred to, it appears that Mrs. Bidwell departed this life on the 16th day of May, 1897, at her place of fixed residence in Harrison county, this state; that on the 4th day of June, 1890, Mrs. Bidwell, being* of sound and disposing mind and over the age of twenty-one years, executed her last will and testament in the presence of four subscribing witnesses thereto; that said will was…
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