Adams v. Bishop

This case came to this court on exceptions to a judgment overruling and denying exceptions to the report of an auditor. It appears from the pleadings and the statement of facts adduced upon the hearing of the case before the auditor, that, on March 12, 1910, Mrs. P. A. Adams, who died in the year 1926, executed her last will and testament. Under this will her husband, W. M. Adams, the plaintiff in error, was to receive a life-estate in one half of the proceeds of a farm of 100 acres. An afflicted son of Mrs. Adams by her first husband received the other half of the proceeds of the farm; also…