Jenkins v. Borodofsky

BRADY, Justice.

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of Sunflower County. The facts are as follows.

J. B. and Mavis Ratliff were husband and wife, and prior to their deaths on October 2, 1966, they had been married approximately a year. On February 2, 1966, J. B. Ratliff executed his last will and tes*875tament. By this instrument he left his wife a life estate in an undivided one-half interest in all the property which he owned at his death. His daughter by a prior marriage, Mrs. Burrell, held the remainder interest and the other undivided one-half interest in fee simple. Mrs. Burrell was J.…