Dees v. Dees

LAWSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by J. Louis Dees, one of the respondents below, from a decree of the Circuit Court of Conecuh County, in Equity.

Mrs. Roena Martin Dees died testate on August 12, 1959, possessed of a considerable amount of real property in Conecuh County. In her will, which was executed on January 19, 1934, Mrs. Dees in a residuary clause devised all of her real property, not covered by specific devises, to seven of her children, all of whom survived her.

As to her real property not covered by specific devises, Mrs. Dees in the residuary clause devised an undivided one-ninth…