Hester v. Sammons

Holt, J.,

delivered the opinioh of the court.

This cause deals with a lapsed legacy.

The testator, William R. Hester, an unmarried man, had lived in Salem, Virginia. Later he moved to Philadelphia *144and there executed his will of date July 22, 1934. He died on July 29, 1936, and this will was admitted to probate in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Roanoke county on August 10, 1936. One of the beneficiaries under it was a sister, Mary Bell Angelí. This beneficiary predeceased her brother, having died in May, 1935. She left, as her distributee surviving, a daughter, Bessie Angelí Sammons,…