Myers v. LAIRD

This case involves questions of whether there was a valid delivery of a deed in escrow to a depositary, and whether a surviving husband’s separate estate is equal in value to a one-half portion of his deceased wife’s estate, so that he cannot renounce her will, which made no provision for him. Both of these inquiries are answered in the affirmative.

Mrs. Fannie B. Regan Myers, a widow (at that time she was Mrs. Regan), made her last will and testament on January 7, 1950. By it she devised to appellee Jerry Nell Laird, her niece, an eighty-acre farm in Walthall County, and bequeathed all of her…