Blalock v. Magee

McGeh.ee, C. J,.This suit involves-a contest of the purported last will and testament - of Mrs. Jimmie Dye Hailey Magee, wife of the -appellee Dr. Hosea F. Magee, a physician and surgeon of Jackson, Mississippi. The contestants are the husband and some of the sisters of the testatrix, all devisees, under the will, and the proponents are 'the appellants James A. Blalock, a nephew of Mrs. Magee, and his mother Mrs. Agnes Hailey Blalock, and other-members. of the Hailey family, who are all likewise devisees under -the will. The’validity of -the instrument is eon-tested on the ground of the lack…