In Re Newby's Estate

In her last will and testament Anna F. Newby, who died April 8, 1957, gave and devised her property and estate to her two children, Bryant N. Newby, Jr., and Florence Newby Tarr, an undivided five-twentieths each; and to her five stepchildren, George Newby, May Romigh, Lillian Gay, Grace Pruitt and Kate Ecton, an undivided one-tenth interest each.

Bryant N. Newby, Jr., predeceased the testatrix, and left surviving his widow, Kathleen Newby, who died in June 1957 leaving Ruth E. Hicks, daughter of an earlier marriage and one of the defendants in error, as her sole and only heir at law. May…