Fransioli v. Podesta

The case is an issue of devisavit vel non in a paper writing propounded as the holographic will of Charles Podesta, deceased, which reads as follows:

“March 26, 1933. I will all to my wife. Chas. Podesta.”

The ease was tried to a jury where the issue was determined in favor of the will, and the contestants’ motion for a new tidal having been overruled, they have appealed in error to this court.

Charles Podesta, a resident of the city of Memphis, died on the 14th day of May, 1933, at the age of 73. He left his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Stagner Podesta, but no children, surviving. The contestants,…