Hood v. Hood

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Two questions are for decision in the present case. The first is whether the court erred in directing a verdict for the plaintiffs; and the second is whether the evidence of the defendant, Mrs. Mattie Hood, the widow of Willis J. Hood, one of the life-tenants, was properly rejected on the trial, which evidence was in support of her answer to the petition in the suit to recover the property devised by item % of the will of Z. W. Hood. The answer to the first question depends upon the answer to the second. If the evidence of the defendant was properly…