Strickland v. Delta Inv. Co.

The appellee, the Delta Investment Company, administrator of the estate of Mrs. Sarah A. Edwards, deceased, filed a petition in the matter of the administration which was pending in the chancery court of Holmes county, to have the will of R. M. Edwards, the late husband of said Mrs. Sarah A. Edwards, construed; all persons in interest having been made parties to the petition. The trial resulted in a decree construing the will, from which appellants prosecute this appeal.

The language in question, which the court was called on to construe, is as follows: “The remainder of the estate to bq…