Williams v. Frierson

I-Iattie Eskridge Frierson filed a petition seeking to have a portion of the last will and testament of Peter Eskridge construed, the will having been duly probated and the executor named therein having duly qualified. The case was submitted on the pleadings and agreed facts to the trial judge, without the intervention of a jury. Item seven of the will was as follows: “ I hereby give and bequeath to my daughters, Hattie G. Eskridge, Emma A. Williams, Effie B. Brandon, and to the children of their bodies born or to be born in lawful wedlock, that is to say: my said daughters Hattie, Emma, and…