Davis v. Tuggle's Adm'r

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

When James T. Tuggle met his death in July, 1885, he left a will devising his property to his wife, Susan Tuggle, for her lifetime, with either the whole or the unconsumed remainder to his children. The will is not clear whether the widow had the right to encroach upon the corpus or was required to maintain it subject to the power of reinvestment. After the mother’s death in 1939, her daughter, Mrs. Blanche Davis, and her husband, J. Leonard Davis, brought this suit against her two brothers and a sister, and one of them as the…