Hitt v. Terry
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the chancery court of Tunica county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Hitt, appellant, propounded for probate what purported to be the will of one R. W. Terry, deceased; and Edwin M. Terry and others, appellees, and next of kin of the decedent, filed a caveat and contested. On an issue devismit vel non the jury found in favor of the contestants. Erom a decree on the verdict adjudging the alleged will invalid, Hitt appealed to the supreme court.
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Erom the chancery court of Tunica county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Hitt, appellant, propounded for probate what purported to be the will of one R. W. Terry, deceased; and Edwin M. Terry and others, appellees, and next of kin of the decedent, filed a caveat and contested. On an issue devismit vel non the jury found in favor of the contestants. Erom a decree on the verdict adjudging the alleged will invalid, Hitt appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court sufficiently states the facts. All of the instructions are set out in full in this report- by order of the court. The…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
The appellant is a physician, who was and has been continu*698ously, for the past ten or twelve years an active practitioner at Dubbs, in Tunica county. One of his patients during practically all of that time was R. W. Terry, the testator in this ease. Terry lived at Walnut Lake, near Dubbs. Terry’s father, W. E. Terry, a number of years ago bought a valuable plantation property on Walnut Lake, and Terry, a few years afterwards, moved on the-property. This property was developed by the father, who devoted practically all of his time to the work, and who invested in. these delta lands all the…
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