Mississippi Supreme Court, 1892

Ward v. Cooper

Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided April 15, 1892 · Campbell

69 Miss. 789

Counsel

John T. Lowe, for appellants., W. S. Chapman and L. C. Siandifer, on the same side., Henry Graft, for appellees., Galvin Perkins, on the same side., W. P. Harris (brief on the same side, filed by associate counsel.)

Opinion of the Court

Campbell, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Only the immediate offspring of Barth enia Guinn were entitled to take under the will, since the gift is to “ children,” *795and a broader than the primary signification of the word is not given to it by the will. Her children living at her death were the class designated by the will as those who were to take, “equally and jointly,” at the termination of the life-estate.

Affirmed.

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