OLD LADIES' HOME ASS'N. v. MILLER

No. 38666.

217 Miss. 187 (1953)

63 So.2d 786

26 Adv. S. 31

OLD LADIES' HOME ASS'N., et al. v. MILLER.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 6, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Green, Green & Cheney, for appellant, Old Ladies Home Ass'n.

Cecil F. Travis and Dan McCullen, for appellant, Old Men's Home.

Norman B. Gillis, Jr., for appellee.


ETHRIDGE, J.

This case involves the interpretation of a holographic will and, in particular, the question of whether a gift expressly for life, with a direction to sell certain rings of testatrix, and at the death of the life tenant "all remaining" of property is willed to remainderman, implies a power of disposition in the life tenant of both personal and real property.

On October 31, 1950, Mrs. Georgia Miller Byrne...

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