Landreth v. Casey

Ellen Landreth died testate in Effingham county on March 30, 1929, aged seventy-two, owning certain lands in that county. On June 3, 1898, about thirty-one years prior to her death, when she was forty-one years of age, she married the appellee, John W. Landreth, then "thirty-one years old, who survives her. No children were born to ' their marriage. By her last will and testament, which was duly probated, she bequeathed only $50 to her husband and gave the bulk of her personal and real estate to a nephew, John Casey, the appellant. The husband afterwards renounced the will and elected to take…