Jennings v. Jennings

This is a contest over property rights in lands devised by Anderson Jennings, among his grandson Ed Jennings, another grandson Jeff Jennings, and the children of another grandson Lewis Jennings. Ed, Jeff and Lewis were sons of testator’s son Royal S. Jennings. The chancellor decreed all the property to Ed Jennings. The Court of Appeals decreed the property one-half to Ed Jennings and one-half to the children of Lewis Jennings. Ed Jennings and Jeff Jennings have filed petitions for certiorari, which have been granted.

The will gave the land in litigation to testator’s widow for life, then to…