Legal Opinion

Williams v. Chambers

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided February 21, 1938No. 4-4950PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtHumpheeys, J.

This suit was brought in the chancery court of the Fort Smith District of Sebastian county by appellants against appellees to construe the will of M. A. Williams, deceased, as meaning that the language of the will vested only a life estate in the testator’s real and personal property in his wife, G-eorgianne R. Williams, and the heirs of her body and, there being no heirs of. her body, that the corpus of the real and personal property vested in the collateral heirs of the testator. It was alleged that Georgianne R. Williams devised and bequeathed the property, of the value of about $8,000' to…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Watson v. Wolff-Goldman Realty Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
  2. Williams v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1925

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Chambers, Admr. v. Williams, Admr.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1939
  2. Williams, Administrator v. Murphy, TrusteeSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1939

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