Sumner v. Hall

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Stites—

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Daviess circuit court sitting in equity. J. E. Sumner, father of the appellant George E. Sumner, died testate on August 26, 1926. He was survived by four grown children and the appellant, who was at that time an infant about 13 or 14 years of age. Decedent left each of his grown children $1 in cash and devised all of the rest of his property to appellant, reciting:

“My reasons for leaving the bulk of my estate to my youngest son, George F. Sumner, is because of his tender age and because I am…