Bynum v. Sharpe

Gardner, Judge:

This is a cross-appeal, we affirm in part and reverse in part.

Involved here are questions pertaining to the distribution of estate assets. W. E. Bynum, Sr. died testate in 1975, leaving his wife, Esther, and his four children, W. E. Bynum, Jr., May Clarke Bynum Sharpe, Henry Clarke Bynum and Alvis J. Bynum as the main beneficiaries of his estate. After certain lifetime bequests of monthly income to relatives and certain charitable bequests, he devised the bulk of his estate by the will’s residuary clause as follows:

“All the rest, and the residue of my estate, both real,…