Forrest v. Turner

Crump, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

In the month of December, 1924, Mrs. Leo H. Forrest offered for probate a paper writing purporting to be the holograph will of Joseph M. Tatem then recently deceased. Mrs. Forrest was the sole beneficiary under the paper presented as a' will, and at the consequent hearing the parties who were the heirs and distributees of the deceased were made parties defendant. They contested the probate. The court, having heard evidence adduced by both sides, refused to admit the writing to probate as the last will and testament of Joseph M. Tatem; and upon the…