Snidow v. Day

This case involves the construction of the will of John H. Wilburn, deceased.

John H. Wilburn executed his last will and testament on April 30, 1897, and died in 1906 at the age of seventy-years. He was survived by his wife, Mandonia C. Wilburn, age fifty-two years, and by his daughter, Ada B. Wilburn, age eighteen years, who was his only child. The daughter never married and died in 1923, after giving birth to an illegitimate child, James Millard Dills, the defendant in this case. Mandonia O. Wilburn died in 1925.

By the first item of his will the testator gave to his wife, during her natural…