Wood v. Wood
Wyoming Supreme Court
• Error to District Court, Sheridan County; Carroll H. Parmeleií, Judge. Petition 'by Daniel J. Wood, et al. for the probate of the will of Levi Wood, deceased. N. D. Wood, et al., contested the admission of the will to probate; from a decree for the proponents admitting the will to probate, contestants bring error.
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• Error to District Court, Sheridan County; Carroll H. Parmeleií, Judge. Petition 'by Daniel J. Wood, et al. for the probate of the will of Levi Wood, deceased. N. D. Wood, et al., contested the admission of the will to probate; from a decree for the proponents admitting the will to probate, contestants bring error. It was error to charge that the burden of proof rested upon contestants to establish the insanity of the testator and that unsoundness of mind must be established wth reasonable certainty by contestants. The burden of proof throughout the case was upon the proponents of the will,…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Chiee Justice.
This is a will contest. There was a verdict and judgment sustaining the will, and the case is here on error. Levi Wood, a resident of the county of Sheridan, in this state, died on the 7th day of November, 1914, at an advanced age, 86 years as we understand, leaving an estate in said county consisting of real and personal property, and a will dated and executed on December 30, 1902. That will was filed in the office of the clerk of the district court in said county, and a petition for its probate was filed therein by Daniel J. Wood, a son of the testator and named in…
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2Cases cited51 opinions
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