Harrison v. Brown

NYE, Justice.

OPINION

Marguerite Thompson Watson, Audrey Thompson Norton and Hannah Thompson Harrison, three of the five granddaughters of Hannah Thompson, filed this action for declaratory relief and construction of her will. Plaintiffs alleged in effect that they and a fourth sister Thelma Thompson Davis Barter, were entitled under the last will and testament of Hannah Thompson, deceased, to the undivided one-fifth fee simple remainder interest in some 650.95 acres of land devised by the said grandmother Hannah Thompson to one of the five sisters, Pauline Thompson Britton Brown. It was…