HOLLAND v. KING

20282.

214 Ga. 723 (1959)

107 S.E.2d 805

HOLLAND et al., Executors, v. KING et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 6, 1959.

Rehearing Denied March 6, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul H. Anderson, Stephens Mitchell, William M. Pate, Crenshaw, Hansell, Ware & Brandon, for plaintiffs in error.

Alex C. King, Clarence H. Calhoun, Jr., Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, John Sammons Bell, Crenshaw, Hansell, Ware & Brandon, Inman Brandon, contra.


HAWKINS, Justice.

This was a proceeding to construe the will of Roy Stevenson King, executed August 31, 1955, and to have declared void Items XIV and XVIII, which it is alleged are in violation of Code (Ann.) § 113-107, as being charitable bequests made to educational or civil institutions to the exclusion of the plaintiff, Robert King, the sole surviving child of the testator by adoption, who was adopted by the testator and his wife, now deceased, in 1920, at...

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