Joe Lake and Wife v. Copeland

FISHER, Judge,

Section B.—This action was brought on the 12th day of November, 1889, in the District Court of Harrison County, by appellants, against the appellee. The object of the suit was to establish and recover an undivided interest of about one-fourteenth in certain real and personal property described in the petition. The right of plaintiffs depended upon a certain construction of the will of W. M. Copeland, who died at Marshall, in September, 1888. Under the will, according to the meaning which was placed on it in the petition, the appellants were entitled to recover. According to the…