Jones v. Folsom

James Jones and eleven other plaintiffs filed their petition against the executor of Leonard B. Folsom, alleging that the 12th item of the will of the defendant’s testator is as follows: “I give and bequeath the sum of $150.00 to each of my employees in my restaurant, hotel, and barber-shop in Atlanta, who have been in my employment or service for ten years up to and next preceding my death. But no person can take under this twelfth item who takes under any other item of this will.” The plaintiffs were alleged to have been employees in the restaurant of the defendant’s testator for more than…