Collie v. Tucker

Robert Lee Collie died testate on July 22, 1952, and his widow, Sarah F. Collie, died intestate on December 19, 1957. This case requires a construction of the husband’s will in order to determine the ultimate disposition of certain real and personal property that Mrs. Collie received from her husband’s estate and still held at the time of her, own death. The appellants, who are the husband’s collateral heirs, contend that Mrs. Collie was given only a life estate with a power of disposition and that at her death the devolution of the property now in dispute was controlled by her husband’s…