Lewis v. Williams

L. F. COTTEY, Special Judge.

Fred G. Shores died intestate, unmarried, without lineal descendants. Neither his father or mother nor any brother or sister, nor any lineal descendant of either of them, survived him. Of his collateral kindred an uncle, one of his mother’s brothers, stands in the nearest degree of consanguinity. His other heirs are the descendants of a deceased brother of his father, and of two deceased brothers and a deceased sister of' his mother.

Question: How shall his estate be distributed?

Answer: His living uncle, as the sole survivor of the five persons who once bore that…