Pruitt v. Moss

Littlejohn, Justice.

Respondent Fletcher Pruitt (Pruitt) commenced this action for the purpose of ascertaining the legal effect of a joint will executed in 1957 by his mother, Maggie Pruitt Tolbert, and step-father, Charlie Tolbert. This will created a .testamentary plan whereby the surviving testator would inherit a life estate in the deceased testator’s one-half undivided interest in a 41 acre tract of land, owned by the two testators as tenants in common. Upon the survivor’s death, a 10 acre parcel of the aforesaid tract, containing the testators’ home-place, would go to Pruitt in fee…