HICKMAN v. HICKMAN

No. 44073.

190 So.2d 853 (1966)

Dr. Bernard T. HICKMAN, Executor of Estate of Dr. Walter Bernard Hickman, Deceased, v. Dwight O. HICKMAN, Jr., and Bernadette Hickman, minors, by Dwight O. Hickman, Sr., Next Friend.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 3, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howie, Montgomery & Currie, Jackson, for appellant.

J. Hoy Hathorn, Louisville, for appellees.


ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

This case involves a testamentary trust of a stated sum of money for each of two minors, to be "put in a fund so that they will not start drawing their money until they start college." The Chancery Court of Winston County held that this created an estate in the funds, vested in interest in the two minors, but not vested in possession; that the executor should serve as testamentary trustee, and the...

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