New v. Potts

Bleckley, Judge.

Potts, the defendant, was a double executor, being first, executor jointly with Mrs. Wootten, of her husband’s will, and secondly, sole executor of her will, she having married him after the death of Wootten, her first husband. Wootten, the testator, died in 1855; his widow, afterwards Mrs. Potts, the testatrix, died in 1867. She made her will in 1859, after her intermarriage with Potts, and to him she bequeathed, besides a specific legacy, one-half of the general property which came to her under her former husband’s will. The other half she bequeathed to the nine children of…