Hill v. Cochran

Marshall, Chief Justice.

Mr. Hill’s 1974 will named his wife as sole beneficiary. In 1975, he executed another will, which recited: “I make this will in contemplation of a divorce from my wife . . . ; and therefore, exclude her from receiving any of my estate whatsoever, we now living in a bona fide state of separation.” The will then devised and bequeathed all of the testator’s property to his two daughters. Shortly thereafter, the testator dismissed a pending divorce action against his wife, and the parties resumed cohabitation and were living together at the time of his death in 1986. The…