Wall v. Dickens
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of the first district of Panola county. Hon. J. G. Hall, Chancellor. D. P. Wall, a citizen of Panola county, died July 8, 1877, the owner of a considerable estate real and personal situated in said county, leaving a widow but no children nor descendants of children surviving him.
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From the chancery court of the first district of Panola county. Hon. J. G. Hall, Chancellor. D. P. Wall, a citizen of Panola county, died July 8, 1877, the owner of a considerable estate real and personal situated in said county, leaving a widow but no children nor descendants of children surviving him. He left a will which was duly probated by which, after certain legacies, he gave to his said widow for life his entire estate, making no disposition whatever of the remainder interest. Mrs. Wall took the property and made no renunciation. The widow being dead, the appellants, who are the…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The only question for decision in this case is, whether under the *659code of 1871, §§ 1281, 1282, as amended by, “An act, etc.,” approved April 15, 1876, § 54 and § 55, session acts, pp. 193, 194, the widow of a testator, who made but a partial disposition of his estate, and therefore died intestate, as to part of it, and left surviving him neither child nor descendant of a child, by failing to renounce the provisions of the will, which gave her both real and personal estate, thereby lost her right as the sole heir of her deceased husband to inherit that part of his estate as to which he died…
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