Culavin v. O'Connor

This is a proceeding commenced in the county court .of Adams county May 12, 1914, to probate an instrument described as the last will of John O’Connor, who died in Hastings, August 17, 1913. John T. Culavin is proponent and in the document offered by him for probate he is named as sole beneficiary. Contestants claim to be heirs of O’Connor and assail the purported will as a forgery. The county court sustained the instrument as genuine, but on *619appeal to the district court a jury rejected it. From a judgment on the verdict in favor of contestants, proponent has appealed.

The principal question…