Wilson v. Ingram

Wyatt, Justice.

1. Counsel in the instant case devote much of their argument to the question of whether or not the allegations of the petition are sufficient to authorize a court of equity to decree that there had been a virtual adoption of the petitioner by the testator. In the view we take of this case, it is not necessary to pass upon that question here.

2. A will is to be construed by the law as it exists at the date of the death of the testator. Hertz v. Abrahams, 110 Ga. 707 (36 S. E. 409). Hence, the 1949 act of the Georgia Legislature (Ga. L. 1949, p. 1157) has no application to the…