Thrift Trust Co., Admr. v. White

Belle Stockman, in her own handwriting, prepared a paper which purported to be her last will. Six weeks later, on the morning of the day of her death, and while lying on a couch in her own home, she, in the presence of her neighbor and friend, Lillie Duncan, requested her nurse to deliver to her the paper she had previously prepared. The request having been complied with, she said to the nurse and Mrs. Duncan that the paper was her will, in her own handwriting, and that she wanted the two to sign it as witnesses. They did as requested, signing in the presence of Mrs. Stockman, and in the…