Smith v. Young

This case is a contest over the alleged will of H. H. *754Young, who was a citizen of .Clay county. Young was- a bachelor. A short time after his death, no will having been found, letters of administration were taken out upon his estate. Relatively speaking, Young was a wealthy man, and the estate in litigation is a large one.

Young died on December 5, 1921. For a number of years shortly prior to his death Gates T. Ivy, of West Point, Miss., had been his attorney. Hearing the general talk in the community that no will of Young had been found, Ivy stated to several people that some years before…