First National Bank v. Hutson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stabler.

The controversy in this case is over the construction of two wills. About the year 1903, there lived in Aiken county two elderly sisters, Martha E. and Cynthia R. Posey. They made mutual wills, which in substance were the same, the verbiage of the provisions under construction being indenti cal. They left their property, in the first instance, to each other for life. With respect to the real estate owned by them, the' wills provided that, after the death of the surviving testator, the land should be equally divided among C. C.…