Gibson's Administrator v. Gibson

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Bees

Beversing.

James J. Gibson died in 1918, domiciled in and a resident of Bell county, Ky., and the owner of a considerable estate, including real estate in Bell and Harlan counties, Ky., Claiborne county, Tenn., and Loudoun county, Va. A few months before his death he executed a writing purporting to be his will, in which he nominated as executors his son, T. F. Gibson, and his grandson, Bobert G. Low. By the terms of this instrument all of his property was willed to his widow, children and grandchildren.

The original writing purporting to be decedent’s will was…