Stanard v. Miller

THOMAS, X

The appeal was from decree of the probate court rejecting the probate of the alleged will offered for probate. Rulings on evidence are challenged and presented for decision.

It was competent to ask the witness Mrs. Garrett: “Do these sheets of paper contain what Birdie Crute dictated to you?” (Goldsmith v. Gates, 205 Ala. 632, 88 So. 861); it was necessary in identification of the document propounded for probate. Hall’s Heirs v. Hall’s Executors, 38 Ala. 131; Chandler v. Chandler, 204 Ala. 164, 166, 85 So. 558; 51 L. R. A. (N. S.) 930, note; L. R. A. 1916C,,1221. After the death of…