Little Rock v. Lenon

McHáNey, J.

The late Judge C. T. Coffman executed his will February 21, 1896, in which he appointed his wife, Jean H. Coffman, sole executrix without bond and made her his sole beneficiary. The will provided: “I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife,- Jean H. Coffman, all the property, real, personal or mixed, of which I shall die seized and possessed, or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my death.”

More than 27 years later, on June 9,1923, he executed the following codicil to said will: “Know all men by these presents :■ That I, C. T. Coffman, being of sound and disposing mind…