Watters v. First Nat. Bank of Mobile

GARDNER, Justice.

That “the best laid schemes o’mice and men gang aft a-3'ley” is well illustrated by the will of Julian A. Watters, Sr., here presented for judicial interpretation, and involving the final disposition of an estate. of approximately three-quarters of a million dollars.

The will’s uniqueness lies in the apparent confident anticipation of a happy family of both boys and girls, with some detail of differing provisions for each separate class, though at the time of its execution in April, 1913, the testator had a wife and only child, a son 5 years of age. But the testatot died…