Long v. Todd

(after stating the facts as above). The contention presented by the proposition in appellants’ brief is that the trial court erred when he admitted the instrument in question to probate as Mrs. M. L. Waldron’s last will, because more than four years had elapsed from the date of her death before it was offered for probate, and because it was not shown, they insist, that the persons who offered the instrument were not in default in failing to present it im-próbate within four years from said date.

There was testimony that the instrument was in the possession of the witness Briggs, who wrote it,…