Magee v. Bank of Hattiesburg & Trust Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appead from chancery court of Lamar county. Hon. T. P. Dade, Chancellor. Suit by Mrs. W. H. Magee and others against the Bank of Hattiesburg & Trust Company, administrator of W. H. Magee, deceased. Prom a decree for defendant, plaintiffs appeal. Mr. Magee executed his last will and testament on the 25th day of April, 1921, and in it is the following provision: “I devise and bequeath to Mrs. W. H. Magee and my children all that I may have personal and realty.”
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Appead from chancery court of Lamar county. Hon. T. P. Dade, Chancellor. Suit by Mrs. W. H. Magee and others against the Bank of Hattiesburg & Trust Company, administrator of W. H. Magee, deceased. Prom a decree for defendant, plaintiffs appeal. Mr. Magee executed his last will and testament on the 25th day of April, 1921, and in it is the following provision: “I devise and bequeath to Mrs. W. H. Magee and my children all that I may have personal and realty.” His life was insured in the total sum of ten thousand seven hundred sixty-eight dollars and fifteen cents. Of this amount one policy…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.
The appellants, Mrs. W. H. Magee, widow, and Mrs. J. L. Thomas, Mrs. James Daly, Jr., and Willie Bell *129Magee, daughters, respectively, and sole heirs at law of W. H. Magee, deceased, filed a petition in the chancery court of Lamar county seeking to require the appellee, Bank of Hattiesburg & Trust Company, administrator of the estate of the said W. H. Magee, deceased, to pay to them the proceeds of certain insurance policies which the administrator had collected, and which were payable to the executors, administrators, or assigns of the deceased.
It appears from the record that on the 25th day…
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