Heard v. Drennen
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Washington county. Hon. Perot Bell, Chancellor. Drennen, ap.pellee, and Heard and another, appellants, on appellee’s petition, were appointed by the court below co-executors in this state of the last will and testament of one W. L. .Tillman, deceased, who died in the state of Georgia and whose will, the original, was there probated, a duly authenticated copy having been probated in the court below.
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From the chancery court of Washington county. Hon. Perot Bell, Chancellor. Drennen, ap.pellee, and Heard and another, appellants, on appellee’s petition, were appointed by the court below co-executors in this state of the last will and testament of one W. L. .Tillman, deceased, who died in the state of Georgia and whose will, the original, was there probated, a duly authenticated copy having been probated in the court below. Heard and another, appellants, executors of the will in Georgia, appealed from the decree seeking to reverse it in so far as it appointed Drennen, appellee, as one of…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
W. L. Tillman was a resident of Muscogee county, Ga., at which place he resided and was domiciled at the time of his-death. Tillman made a last will and testament naming R. E. Clements, Erank A. Heard, and Travis C. Drennen as his executors. This-will was duly probated in the proper court of Muscogee county, Georgia, agreeable to all the requirements of the-*241law in that state, and two of the executors, R. E. Clements and Frank A. Heard, duly qualified as executors of this last will and testament; but the record shows that Travis C. Drennen, the third executor, failed to qualify as executor in…
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