Carpenter v. Wells' Administrator

WADDILL, Commissioner.

Emmett Wells died testate, a resident of Montgomery County, Kentucky, on Juné 26, 1952. His. holographic will executed on February 8, 1950, reads as- follows:

“I request that all my personal and private posseron be eqarally divde betwen Hester and Edgar Wells.”

This controversy over the construction of the will arises from different views as to what effect should be given to the term “request” and as to what the testator 'meant 'by the words “personal and private possessions.” The Chancellor entered a judgment declaring that Emmett Wells had devised and bequeathed his…