Watkins v. Gilmore

In February, 1890, J. B. Watkins and S. J. Hale qualified as the executors of A. M. Watkins. By his will the testator had devised all of his property to his wife for life, and, after her death, to his children for life, with remainder over in fee to their children, the will providing that if any child should die without child or children, then his portion should go to the surviving children of the testator and the children of deceased *489children. The executors assented to the devise to the widow, and at her death assented to the devises to the children, dividing the land and making each child a…