Dunklin v. Ramsay

John Harris Jones, Special Chief Justice,

dissenting. This appeal relates to construction of the Will of Hattie Boone Black, primarily Article II:

I give and bequeath all of my personal property, whether tangible or intangible (with the sole exception of all common stock in Black, Inc., and in all other corporations, owned by me at the time of my death), to my sister, Georgea Oliver McKinley.

Article III willed the residue to a Trust of which the life beneficiaries were decedent’s nieces, Mary McKinley Jennings, Georgea Boone McKinley Greaves, and Deborah Boone Dunklin Tipton, and her nephews,…