Rainey v. Woodcock

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

This petition, by an only child against the executor of her mother’s estate, shows that her father and mother executed a joint will devising their entire estate to the survivor for life with complete right to consume the corpus, and the remainder, if any, to their only child. The father predeceased the mother, who thereafter executed a new will in which her property was divided between the petitioner and the petitioner’s child. The petitioner alleges that her mother sold some land for money in excess of $3,000, that she had deposits in banks amounting to more than…