Merchants National Bank of Mobile v. Cowley

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Merchants National Bank of Mobile, as trustee, from a final decree rendered by the Circuit Court of Mobile County, in equity, in a declaratory judgment proceeding brought by said Bank, as trustee, against Loyd Cowley and Lucille Sutton, as executors of the will of Norma S. Cowley, deceased, Loyd Cowley, Janeillen Cowley and Rosemary Cowley (the younger).

The questions presented are:

I. Whether the property and assets devised and bequeathed to Norma S. Cowley by the will of her father, Lee E. Sutton, deceased, passed, on her death, to the beneficiaries…