MATTER OF ESTATE OF MITCHELL

No. 57373.

519 So.2d 430 (1988)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Thomas A. MITCHELL, Deceased. Betty Lou Bayhi ZIMMERMAN, v. Joseph C. CORLEY, Executor, Dow Mitchell, Jessie Mae Mitchell Parker, Rochelle E. Segrest, Hugh Marshall, Abigail Fincannon Casey and Michael Fincannon.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Knox White, William S. Boyd, III, White & Morse, Gulfport, for appellant.

Larry L. Lenoir, Richard B. Graves, Gulfport, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ROBERTSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.


GRIFFIN, Justice, for the Court:

This case, concerning the term "cash" within a will, comes to the Court from the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Harrison County, which awarded four certificates of deposit under a cash bequest. We affirm.

On February 9, 1981, Thomas A. Mitchell executed a will, which read in part:

Item III I hereby give, devise and bequeath to my brothers, sisters, or surviving children of my brothers...

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