Barmore v. Darragh

FLY, O. J.

This suit was instituted by John Greenleaf Darragh and Mabel Darragh Jenkins against John Darragh Barmore, the minor son of Mrs. Jenkins by a former marriage, to obtain the construction of a will executed by Annie Pendleton S. Darragh, the mother of appellees and grandmother'of appellant. The trial court construed the will as vesting in appellees, share and share alike, fee-simple title to all the real property belonging to the estate of the testatrix.

The testatrix, a widow, died on December 15, 1918, and her will was probated on January 8, 1919. Appellees were her only children,…