Burton v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins.

This is an appeal from a decree declining to grant the relief prayed for in a bill of complaint, and granting that prayed for in a cross-bill.

The appellants filed a bill of complaint in the court below, alleging that Samuel Thompson, Sr., died intestate in November, 1919, seized and possessed, in fee simple, of certain land, leaving as his heirs, his widow, Sallie Thompson, and two children, Eddie Thompson and Samuel Thompson, Jr., and the appellants who are the children of a daughter of Samuel Thompson, Sr., and his wife, Sallie Thompson, who died in October, 1913; that in August, 1921,…