Mumaw v. Mumaw

This cause originated as a suit for partition of a 100-acre farm devised by the decedent, E. A. Mumaw, to his wife, Mary R. Mumaw, for life with remainder to decedent’s seventeen nieces and nephews under the terms of a holographic will dated February 19, 1945, and admitted to probate on October 24, 1959.

The partition suit was filed about eight years after the death of E. A. Mumaw by the plaintiffs, Mary R. Mumaw and eight of decedent’s nieces and nephews. One of the defendants, James B. Mumaw, the son and only surviving descendant of the decedent, filed an answer and an amended answer asking…