Simmons v. Harms
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
BENHAM, Justice.
Harriet Harms executed a will on September 13, 2005, and died thirty months later on March 18, 2008, at age 93. In her 2005 will, she named her son, appellee Edward Harms, as executor of her estate and devised to him the family homeplace. She left the remainder of her estate, consisting of a brokerage account and an unimproved parcel of land in Savannah, to be divided among her four daughters, two of whom are appellants/caveators Marie Simmons and Frances Stockton. The 2005 will revoked a 1976 will which distributed the decedent’s estate equally among her five children and…
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