Slaughter v. Gaines

C. H. Gaines died on January 5,1953. His last will and testament, dated October 29, 1952, was duly admitted to probate by a decree of the Chancery Court of Coahoma County on January 8, 1953, and Charles Louis Gaines and Boy Chapman thereupon qualified as executors of the will.

In his will the testator devised and bequeathed his property as follows:

“Know All Men By These Presents, That I, C. H. Gaines, of Coahoma County, Mississippi, being of sound and disposing mind and memory and over and above the age of twenty-one years do hereby make, publish and *758declare this as my last will and testament,…