Dillard v. Nix

Ray Thornton, Justice.

Grace Marie Nix executed a will on February 2, 1979, and the will was attested on that date by the attorney who prepared the will and by his secretary. A codicil was added to the will on April 11, 1989, and the codicil was also witnessed by Eugene Fitzhugh, the attorney who prepared the will, and by his secretary Sheila Eoff White. Following Ms. Nix’s death, her surviving spouse, George Nix, appellee, offered the will and its codicil for probate on November 9, 1999.

Appellants, Andrea Dillard, Annette Barry, and Joseph Dillard, Jr., Ms. Nix’s children from a previous…