Lacey v. Pelus

L. A. Smith, Sr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of Pearl River County, involving the issue of whether or not a gift was made inter vivos to appellees of certain household furniture and effects in the servants’ quarters of the home of Mrs. Lotta Lacey Barnard, where appellees lived as her servants during her lifetime. Mrs. Barnard died June 13, 1943, testate, and among the beneficiaries in her will was Mrs. Harry Lacey of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a cousin, who claimed the identical property involved in the alleged gift to appellees, Rudolph…