Cordon v. Gregg

Francis Marion Hnitt died testate on October 14,1937, leaving an estate of both real and personal property in Douglas county. He left as his sole heir at law James Gregg Huitt, his only child, a boy of the age of seventeen years. The boy died unmarried and without issue some two months later, leaving as his sole heir at law his mother, Mrs. Lucy M. Skeeters, the divorced wife of the testator and one of the defendants herein.

By his will, the testator named the plaintiff as executor and gave and devised all his property to the plaintiff in trust for his son with directions that all the devised…