Lane v. Railey

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner—

Reversing.

S. B. Lane and others appeal from a judgment of the lower court construing the holographic will of Bessie B. Lane, a maiden lady who died April 16, 1937, then about sixty years of age. Her will and codicils thereto were written while she was in a hospital in Louisville, the will being dated May 20, and the (signed) codicil December, both in the year 1936.

So much of Miss Lane’s will as is conceived to be pertinent to a discussion of the case is copied,, as is the codicil:

“To my sister Mary Railey, I leave the income of my interest in…