Billings v. Billings

After this appeal had been perfected and submitted for decision to this court, the appellant, Emma C. Billings, died testate, naming her son, George H. Billings, as the executor of her estate, who duly qualified as such. Subsequent thereto, on the motion of the parties, George H. Billings, as executor, has been substituted as the party appellant.

The facts of the case, necessary to be considered, are somewhat complicated. On September 12, 1918, Emma C. Billings, then a widow, seventy-nine years of age, was the owner of a tract of farm land situated in Lincoln county, in this state, the tract…