Ferguson v. Ferguson

This suit was instituted on the 12th day of July, 1935, by C. M. Ferguson, A. L. Ferguson and Martha Fletcher against Thomas Smith, H. B. Ferguson and W. S. Ferguson, for the purpose of contesting the will of Ida J. Ferguson, deceased, which had been admitted to probate ex parte before the clerk of the Circuit Court of Scott county. W. S. Ferguson was the husband of the late Ida J. Ferguson and the other parties were her children. At the time of her death, Mrs. Ferguson and her husband owned a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, worth between twenty-five hundred and three thousand dollars, and, in addition, a life estate in seventeen acres of land.