Chapman's Exr. v. Chapman

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Turner.

Affirming on original and reversing on cross appeal.

In 1895 Ar'e-h Chapman was a prosperous farmer of Simpson -county, and owned about two hundred acres of land; his son, John Will Chapman, a young man about twenty-nine or thirty years -of age, who had never married, was the owner of about one hundred acres of land-adjoining that of his father.

John Will Chapman was in very delicate health, being afflicted with tuberculosis, and it was known and recognized by Mm and all -of his family -that he could live but a short time. Arch Chapman had no other child…