In Re Worth's Will
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ApplicatioN of Hal M. Worth and others for the probate of the will of J. M. Worth, deceased, heard by Judge H. 11. Bryan and a jury, at December Term, 1900, of the Superior Court of Randolph County. From an order probating will, the caveators, R. W. Bingham and others, appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomeey, J.
The first exception of the appellants U addressed to the ruling of his Honor excluding the testimony of Mrs. Crocker, one of their witnesses. She was the daugh ter-in-law of the testator, and had received a legacy of $2,000 under the script which was then before the Court on the issue devisavü vel non. It appeared-in the evidence that the testator had made another will in 1894, in which a legacy had been given to the witness, but the amount of the legacy was not stated, and there was no evidence as to the destruction or revocation of that will by the testator. The appellants insist that the…
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