Tomlin v. Laws

This is a bill to construe a will. Oscar Tomlin, a farmer residing in Mason county, met with an accident in which his back was broken. While his mind was clear his body was paralyzed from his neck down. His seventh vertebra was broken mnd the spinal column severed. He requested the attending physician to prepare his will for him. The will was dated June 23, 1917, and the evidence shows that this was about three or four weeks before his death. At the time of the making of the will, and at his death, he owned two farms in Mason county, — one of 127 acres and one of 120 acres, — subject to two…