Toomer v. Van Antwerp Realty Corp.

(after stating the facts).

The appellants insist -that the birth of children to Anna Virginia Spotswood, subsequent to the execution of the will, operated by force of the statute of that time, Code 1876, § 2284; Code 1886, § 1955, now Code 1923, § 10585, a total revocation of the will of said Anna Virginia Spots-wood, and that her said property passed by the process of devolution under the statutes of descent and distribution, the husband taking a life estate under the statute, Code 1886, § 2353, which gave him one-half of the personalty “and * * * the use of the realty during his life,” and…