Pournelle v. Baxter

BUFORD, J.:

This cause is before us on appeal from an order of the circuit court affirming the order of a circuit judge sitting as judge of probate in lieu of the disqualified County Judge.

The case arises out of the following existing conditions: Mrs. Fannie A. Baird, a widow, died April 4, 1936. Two days after her death a will appearing to have been executed August 11, 1934, was duly probated in the County Judge’s Court in and for Alachua County. By this will she made certain bequests to Percy E. Pournelle, as follows:

“XVI. I give, devise and bequeath to my cousin, Percy E. Pournelle, the…