Higgins v. Pipkin

BERRY, Justice.

B. V. Pipkin, hereafter referred to as “testatrix”, died testate in 1957. In 1949 testatrix made a will in which she apparently named her sons and daughters, or if deceased at the time of her death, their issue, her beneficiaries. In said will testatrix provided that her sons, Wade L. Pip-kin and Marshall W. Pipkin, or the survivor, should be appointed executors of her estate without bond. Wade L. Pipkin, who was survived by four children, predeceased testatrix.

Following testatrix’ death, Marshall W. Pipkin, hereafter referred to as “proponent”, filed a petition in the County…