In Re Estate of Simpkins

This is an appeal on questions of law, lodged in this court after the overruling of exceptions to the inventory filed hy the executrix of the estate of Ira Gr. Simpkins, deceased.

Ethel C. Simpkins is the executrix and mother of the ex-ceptor, Merlin W. Simpkins. In the exceptions to the inventory, Merlin W. Simpkins, the son, claims that the executrix, his mother, Ethel C. Simpkins, included within the inventory, as assets of the estate, real property (a farm) which he, Merlin, had purchased from his father and mother, by way of oral contract prior to the death of his father.

Merlin claims…