Lane v. Citizens & Southern National Bank

Reid, Chief Justice.

The question involved in this case arises from a construction of the will of B. Y. Lane. The will was executed in 1916. His death occurred in 1917, and the will was thereupon probated. At the time he executed the will and at the date of his death his heirs at law were his widow and six children, namely, Mary Lane Denmark, Walter T. Lane, Mills B. Lane, Edward W. Lane, all of whom were married and had children, John Lane, whose wife was dead and who had a living son, I. Tillman Lane, and Ben L. Lane, who at the time was not married. John Lane died in November, 1917, after…