McConnell v. CROCKER

Stukes, Justice.

Miss Hettie Evans of Richland County died in 1946 at the age of eighty-one leaving of force her will dated Sept. 30, 1944, of which appellants are executors. Respondent and two other nieces (one now deceased) were given life estates in decedent’s home place, consisting of thirty-odd acres in the suburbs of Columbia on which were situate her large residence of twelve rooms and outbuildings. The residue of the estate, consisting principally of the remainder in the home place (after the life estates) and of the fee in other tracts of lesser acreages, was devised to the only…