Ford v. Ross

SPEER, Justice.

This is a will contest case. Upon trial to a jury, judgment was entered for proponents and against contestant, from which judgment the latter has appealed.

Rachel Ford Reese, a negro woman about 49 years old, executed a will on August 6th, 1935, and a codicil thereto on December 4th, 1935, and died January 31st, 1936.

By the will first executed, testatrix named her white friend, Rabbi Harry A. Merfeld, independent executor. In paragraph three, she bequeathed jointly to her two sisters, Emma Ross and Annabelle Johnson, her little home place for and during their natural lives, with…