McSherry v. Israel

Candler, Presiding Justice.

Mrs. Harriett Clark Gurr executed a will and two codicils thereto during the last 5 years immediately preceding her death which occurred on February 28, 1965, when she was 90 years old. She named R. Beverly Irwin and the Citizens & Southern National Bank as executors of her estate. Both declined in writing to qualify as executors, and in accordance with Code § 113-610 delivered her will and the codicils to the Ordinary of Fulton County. On October 19, 1965, Martin Frank McSherry, a devisee named in decedent’s will, filed a petition in the Court of Ordinary of Fulton…