Legal Opinion
Sims v. Moore
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided June 29, 1972No. 1 Div. 705 and 705-XPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCALL, Justice.
This litigation involves the contest of two items of an account, between Leslie Lee Sims, as executor (Sims), and the estate of his decedent, Leslie W. Moore, filed on petition for a final settlement of Sims’ administration in the Probate Court of Mobile County, Alabama. The contest was made by three of the testator’s heirs at law and next of kin (heirs).
The heirs’ contest is that the testator did not bequeath the two items of the account in question to Sims, as he contends, and, there being no general residuary clause in the testator’s will, the proceeds of these items…
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