Fuqua v. MILLS
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
*439Kyle, J.
This case is before us on appeal by Mrs. Alice E. Fuqua from a decree of the Chancery Court of Marshall County dismissing her petition contesting the validity of a codicil to the last will and testament of Mrs. Antionette Arnold in which the testatrix had devised and bequeathed the residue of her estate to the Methodist Church, Byhalia, Mississippi.
The record shows that Mrs. Antionette Arnold died on April 20,1952, and that her last will and testament dated July 22, 1949, and a codicil thereto dated August 11, 1950, were duly admitted to probate in common form by two separate decrees…
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