In Re Estate of Leake

Defendants, James A. Million, Edna Haigh and Allie Winchester, who are the sole heirs of Charles Oliver Leake, testator, appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court, construing the will of the testator on complaint of the plaintiff executors, James Leake and William Stephenson.

In substance the will in question first left all property to the testator’s wife, and then provided:

“Item FOUE: In the event my wife should predecease me, then and in that event I give and bequeath all the rest and residue of my estate to be divided as follows:

“To The Salvation Army, a one-seventh part;

“To Mollie Harney,…