Shropshire v. Salyer

FOLLEY, Justice.

On the 17th day of May, 1934, Charlotte Pool Shropshire executed a will. In this will she devised all of her property, consisting of real estate in Floyd, Hale, and Hockley counties, to her two minor children by her second marriage. These two children were Betty Lou Shropshire and David Shropshire. To a child of a former marriage, Billie Pool, she bequeathed the sum of $10. She named her brother, M. H. Salyer, the appellee herein, as independent executor of said will. She also made him trustee of some of the property devised to the daughter, for him to keep the same in trust…