Grainger's Ex'rs Trustees v. Pennebaker

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Richardson

Reversing.

The Fidelity & Columbia Trust Company and the Liberty Bank & Trust Company were named executors and trustees in the will of Jeannie M. Grainger.' The will was probated by the county court of Jefferson county. They were by its order appointed and qualified as executors and trustees of her will; they assumed the control and possession of her estate, immediately paid all of the debts of the testatrix, and, within nine months after the date of her death, paid the inheritance taxes on the estate and the interest of the several beneficiaries under…