Hughes v. First National Bank of Mobile

MERRILL, Justice.

This case was originally assigned to another member of the Court, but was transferred to the writer on January 11, 1960.

Mrs. Hattie T. Hughes was hospitalized in Mobile in February, 1947, with a heart condition from which she never recovered, and was bedridden until her death on August 18, 1947. She had been alienated from her son, appellant Hunt C. Hughes, for many years. He had left home at seventeen years of age, spent a week in Mobile with his mother in 1918 when he was twenty-five, saw her in 1929 when she visited him at his home in Missouri, and next saw her in the…