Dickson v. Dickson

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The principal question involved in this appeal is the proper construction of the will of S. L. Dickson, deceased. It arises in this way: The deceased and the appellant, who was plaintiff below, each being more than sixty years of age, were married in 1905. It was not the first venture for either of them. Plaintiff bore no children as the fruits of her first marriage, but the deceased was- the father of five children by his first marriage, one of whom is the appellee, S. J. Dickson, who is the executor of his father’s will.

At the time of the…