McGHEE v. BANKS

42500.

115 Ga. App. 155 (1967)

154 S.E.2d 37

McGHEE et al. v. BANKS, Administrator, et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided February 3, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter V. Beasley, J. N. Johnson, for appellants.

Johnson & Hayes, Randolph Hayes, Edenfield, Heyman & Sizemore, Benjamin H. Oehlert, III, Northcutt & Edwards, Robert E. Hicks, for appellees.


HALL, Judge.

The issue on this appeal is whether the estate of a testator, upon her homicide by her husband whom she had named the beneficiary of her entire estate, is payable to her heirs at law other than her husband, or to the husband's daughter (the testator's step-daughter), who would be his heir at law upon his death. The following statute must be applied: "The right of inheritance is hereby denied any person who shall, with malice aforethought, kill any other...

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