Pugh v. Perryman

STAKELY, Justice.

This is an appeal from the Bessemer Division of the Probate Court of Jefferson County from a decree overruling a demurrer to a bill for a declaratory judgment filed in that court.

Hessie P. Perryman died on October 30, 1950 and on November 6, 1950 Thomas I. Perryman (appellee here) filed in the said probate court a petition to probate an alleged will of the said decedent made by her on April 5, 1944. Under this instrument Hessie P. Perryman left all of her property to Thomas I. Perryman, her husband.

Thereafter on November 9, 1950 Sam Pugh (appellant here), brother of the…