Giles v. Kelly

Margaret Whitner, a colored woman over 80 years of age, died at her home in the city of Baton Rouge on the 3d of February, 1925, leaving as her heirs at law a daughter, Josephine 'Whitner- Giles, wife of Washington Giles, and three sons, namely, Richard Kelly, Nelson Whitner and Joseph Whitner, and a grandson, George Young, the only child of Janie Whitner Young, déeeased daughter of Margaret Whitner.

During the last twenty years of Margaret Whitner’s lifetime, her daughter Josephine lived with her, and her son Richard Kelly lived in an old house or shack in a corner of the yard. For many years…