Higgs v. Estate of Higgs

John E. Jennings, Chief Judge.

This probate case is a will contest. Wilton Higgs was born in 1901 and lived most of his life in Locust Bayou. His wife, Gladys, died in 1984. The two of them had no children. On October 10, 1985, Wilton Higgs filed a petition in Calhoun County Probate Court asking that his brother, Herman Higgs, be appointed conservator of his estate for reasons of Wilton’s old age and physical disability. On the same date Wilton executed a will prepared by Mr. Searcy Harrell, a Camden attorney. In the will, he left $1,000.00 to Antioch Primitive Baptist Church. The rest of his…