Gaunt v. Tucker's Executors

Hartwell Tucker duly executed his last will, by which he bequeathed, after the payment of his debts, one-third of all his estate to his wife, one-third to James Tucker, his brother, in trust for his, James Tucker’s, children, and one-third to James Tucker, in trust for the children of Burwell Tucker. The testator had no children of his own. After his death, the executors, James Tucker and Peter F. Gaunt, propounded the will for probate, which was duly proved and recorded, and letters testamentary issued to them in the usual form. The widow of the deceased afterwards dissented from the will…