White v. Cherry

OPINION op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Reversing.

J. W. Butt died unmarried, a resident of Warren connty, in December, 1925, leaving a will by which he devised his entire estate to his niece, Ida B. White. The estate was of value about $50,000. He had two half-sisters, the daug-hters of his mother by a second marriage, Mrs. Maggie Cherry and Mrs. Mattie P. Gualtney. Mrs. Cherry had nine children. Mrs. Gualtney had two, Mrs. Ida B. White and Mrs. Maggie Holland. Mrs. Cherry filed this action contesting the will. On the trial of the case, the jury returned a verdict against the will. The…