Darden v. Williams

This case involved an issue of devi-savit vel non as to the will of William Lillard, the trial of which resulted in a verdict sustaining the will. ■ The contestants are in this Court by appeal, and have assigned many errors upon the action of the trial Judge in his rulings upon the testimony as. well as a portion of his general charge, and on his. *415failure to grant special requests. These errors, however, we cannot consider because of the anomalous condition of the bill of exceptions. Waiving a number of serious objections to it which might be taken, a vital defect is that it shows that the…