Hayes v. Hay

The application for a year’s support filed by Annie Lee Hayes, and the caveat filed by J. 0. Hayes and Dorothy Hayes Graham, made two issues: first, whether the appraisers set aside to the applicant more in property and money than she wras justly and legally entitled to; second, whether the applicant was the widow of Isaac Hayes from whose estate she sought to have the year’s support set aside.

The caveators, J. 0. Hayes and Dorothy Hayes Graham (plaintiffs in error here), contend that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain the verdict because it demanded a finding by the jury that the…