Elliott v. Markland

Mrs. Loretta Hinkle Markland died testate, leaving her husband Prank Markland and certain collateral kindred as her heirs-at-law.- No children were ever born to her and her husband. By her will she gave her husband a life estate in her real and personal property, with the remainder to the complainant Daniel Elliott, whom she raised, and to her brothers and sisters. The husband dissented from the will and claimed all her estate, real and personal. The Chancellor held that he took only a third interest in the personal estate and no interest in the realty, no right of curtesy having- attached.…