Graves v. Douglas Graves & Commerce Trust Co.

Suit by the adopted child and only heir of Eugene Henry Graves, Jr., Against Douglas Cowherd Graves and Commerce Trust Company to construe the will and recover an interest in the estate of Sallie Cowherd, deceased. The trial court sustained demurrers to plaintiff’s petition. Plaintiff declined to plead further and, upon judgment being rendered against him, has appealed.

Sallie Cowherd died in 1919. .Her will, dated July 3, 1919, so far as material here, is as follows:

“Second, I give, devise and bequeath to Eugene Henry Graves, Jr., and Douglas Cowherd Graves, and to the-heirs of their body”…