Merchants' Nat. Bank & Trust Co. v. Port Gibson Oil Works

Mrs. Fannie Willis Johnson died in the city of Vicksburg, Miss., on the 2d day of September, 1931, leaving a last will and testament, which was duly admitted to probate in the chancery court of Warren county on September 4,1931, and letters testamentary were issued to Blanche Winter, T. W. McCoy, and the Merchants’ National Bank & Trust Company of Vicksburg, the executors named in the will. The said national bank was also designated in the will as trustee and depository of the trust funds created by several items of the will..

The will contained many specific bequests and separate items, among…