Carlisle ex rel. Carlisle v. Estate of Carlisle

PATTERSON, Justice:

This is an appeal by Steven Earl Car-lisle, minor, from an adverse judgment of the Chancery Court of Warren County wherein the chancellor construed the word “home” in the holographic will of Addie W. Carlisle to connotate a house and two acres of contiguous land.

The testatrix and her husband formerly lived in Sharkey County on a tract of land owned by the husband. In 1952 the couple, who had no children, moved to Warren County to reside in the family home of Mrs. Carlisle’s deceased father, who in 1932 had partitioned the home and 58.4 acres to Addie.

Addie lived in the…