Nicholson v. Nicholson Ex Rel. Bonner

The late B. B. Nicholson, a lawyer by profession, left a last will and testament dated 5 April, 1904, which provides, “I will and bequeath and devise my entire real and personal property of all kind whatsoever to my beloved wife, Sallie D. Nicholson and our child (unborn), with .one request, etc.”

The child referred to at that time, Blake B. Nicholson, Jr., was born and lived to the age of nine years, but died before his father. A second child, Plummer A. Nicholson, Jr., represented herein by his guardian ad litem, John H. Bonner, was born later and survived his father, and is the only heir at…