Temple v. First Nat. Bank of Meridian

L. A. Smith, Sr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

William Foster Temple on the 22nd day of September 1944 was a widower, without living parents, children, brothers or sisters, and was residing in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. Without having remarried, he departed this life testate on the 7th day of January, 1945. His will was holographic, although meticulously he had it attested by four witnesses. His heirs-at-law are the children, and descendants of the deceased children, of his deceased brothers and sisters, some of whom are also legatees; and to some of whom he neither devised nor…