Turner v. Weeks

GRIMES, Chief Judge.

This appeal involves an examination of the interplay between the antilapse statute and the laws of adoption.

Emma Hicks, who died on February 18, 1979, executed a will in 1966 which read in part:

All of the rest, residue, and remainder of the property which I may own at the *194time of my death, real, personal and mixed, tangible and intangible of whatsoever nature and wheresoever situated including all property which I may acquire or become entitled to after the execution of this Will I bequeath and devise in fee unto my beloved grandnephew, JAMES SPARKMAN FLETCHER of Plant…