Hagerty v. Hagerty's Ex'rs

Hemphill, Ch. J.

Spire M. Hagerty, at his death, bequeathed the sum of two thousand dollars to Ms sister Delilah Harwell and her children; to his son Spire M. Hagerty he 'bequeathed one thousand dollars, and stated as a reason for not giving him more, that he did not believe Mm to be his son ; and to his daughter Prances he left the residue of his-large estate, (said to amount to eighty thousand dollars,) with limitation over in the event of her death without issue. He left his wife Rebecca surviving. She became guardian of her children, and brought this suit to have the will annulled and *457set…