Weller v. Dinwiddie

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Affirming.

This appeal involves the construction of the holographic will of James M. Dinwiddie, a retired real estate broker, who left an estate valued at $100,000.00, of which from forty to fifty per cent was real estate.

His near relatives were a wife, 69 years of age, and a son and his wife, they having no children. He also had a sister and several nieces.

So much of the will as is necessary to be considered reads as follows:

*362“Second. I'devise and bequeath to my dear wife, Mattie Dinwiddie, all of my real and personal property of every description, except…