LaRue v. Lee

RobiNSON, Judge:

A writing propounded as the last will and testament of William Griffith, deceased, was admitted to probate, and, upon appeal therefrom to the circuit court, an issue of devisa/oit ml non was submitted to the jury. The evidence offered by the contestants was excluded, and a verdict directed for proponents, which being returned, judgment accordingly followed, and, upon proper exceptions, this writ of error prosecuted.

This writing is in testamentary form, and was duly proved to be wholly in the handwriting of the testator and signed by him. While it is crude in expression, and…