Byrd v. Wallis

From a decree of the chancery court of Coahoma county construing the last will and testament of Martha “Mattie” Moss Johnson, deceased, this appeal is prosecuted by one of the legatees under the will, Emma Moss Byrd, who challenges the correctness of the decree rendered by the court below only in so far as such decree deals with the residuum of the estate after the payment of the specific legacies therein provided for.

In addition to making certain bequests of money to the executor named in the will, and to the Clarksdale Hospital, the Old Ladies’ Home at Jackson, Mississippi, a memorial fund,…