Merchants & Planters Bank v. Myers

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

In this declaratory judgment action, the executor of the estate of J. Lacy Myers sought the direction of the court on administering the estate following a dissent from the will by the widow. The chancellor made numerous rulings and both the testator’s sister and his widow have appealed.

J. Lacy and Esther Myers were married in 1934 and had no children. Myers, over his lifetime, accumulated a substantial estate, owning a Chevrolet agency in partnership with John Abe Teague, several farms, a shopping center, and banking interests. At his death on May 4, 1978, he was survived…