Croft v. Snidow

This is an attack upon the will of Mrs. Helen B. Hoge, late of Giles county, Va.

The contestants who are the appellants charged that the testatrix did not possess sufficient mental capacity to make a valid will and that the paper writing offered was not her free will and testament but was brought about by the undue influence exercised by John Chapman Snidow, one of the appellees, and the major beneficiary.

There was an issue devisavit vel non. At the conclusion of the evidence introduced by the proponents, the contestants demurred to the evidence. The court overruled the demurrer and decreed…