Hatcher v. Cade

Jackson, Judge.

Samuel Hatcher died, leaving a widow and children, and made a will providing for the disposition of his property. The substance of the will was that the property should be *360kept together for maintenance and education until his widow or one of the children should marry, or a child become of age, and then that child, or the widow, if she married, should have her share, and to that end that commissioners should be appointed by the ordinary to divide the estate among them. The widow and children, without waiting for the commissioners to do so, divided the estate among themselves.…