Kesterson v. Bailey
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Camp. Tried below before Hon, J. M. Talbot.
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES, Chief Justice.
Item second of the will of Elijah Bailey, who died in September, 1866, reads: “I give and bequeath to, Edna Y. Bailey, my wife, the tract of land in which I now reside known as the Dean place containing 409 acres of land, more or less, and I give and bequeath also that at the death of Edna Y. Bailey, my wife, said land be and the same are hereby set apart for a child which be unborned, which be the heir of Edna Y. Bailey, my wife, child not yet bomd.” The child was born about a month after Elijah’s death, which was named Gertrude, and which died when nine months old.
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