ERSKINE v. KLEIN

21610.

218 Ga. 112 (1962)

126 S.E.2d 755

ERSKINE et al. v. KLEIN et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 26, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephens Mitchell, Mitchell, Clarke, Pate & Anderson, for plaintiffs in error.

John L. Westmoreland, John L. Westmoreland, Jr., Harry P. Hall, Jr., M. K. Pentecost, Jr., contra.


GRICE, Justice.

The issue here is whether a testatrix, at her death, had a devisable interest in certain real property.

Leading up to this litigation were a series of events which may be summarized as follows.

James Lynch's will, probated in 1899, devised two tracts of real estate in the City of Atlanta to his daughter Mary Ann Erskine, for life, with remainder to her children who survived her and the descendants of any of her children who predeceased...

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