Sibley v. Patrick

Appellant brought this suit to establish as a lost will a soldier’s letter, alleged to be a holographic will, devising the entire estate to him as sole beneficiary, and from the finding that the soldier died intestate, and the decree dismissing his cause for want of equity, the appeal is prosecuted.

Appellant alleged that Alston K. Wilson, a soldier in the A. E. F., who died in France in 1918, had given him all his estate by a letter alleged to be a holographic will, written to him from the army camp at Chattanooga, Tennessee, before’ going overseas. Tbe letter reads as follows:

“I am sailing…