Gibbes v. Watson

Citations

• 92 Miss. 9
• 45 So. 5

Syllabus

<p>1. Wills. Construction. Estate devised.</p> <p>' Where a testator devised his property to his wife for life with power to dispose of the same without authority from any court, and directed her to invest the proceeds unless needed for her support, she acquired a life estate, was entitled to the income for life; and a daughter to whom she gave the income can not be charged therewith in settling testator’s estate after the death of the wife.</p> <p>:2. Same. Accounting between legatees.</p> <p>In such case one of the remaindermen is, after the death of the life tenant, entitled to maintain a bill against another for an accounting of bequeathed personal property which came into the latter’s possession^</p>