Legal Opinion

Holmes v. West

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided November 13, 1917Published

Appeal from Circuit Court, Tyler County. Suit by John Raymond Holmes against August West and others. From a decree for defendants, complainant appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

Miller, Judge:

Upon an issue devisavit vel non tried before a jury the verdict upon which the decree of March 10, 1916, cora-*327plained of, was rendered, was that the paper writing in controversy and which was admitted to probate in the clerk’s office of the county court of Tyler county, on October 15, 1895, as and for his last will and testament, was in fact the true last will and testament of Marcus M. Holmes, deceased.

Plaintiff and .contestant who filed the bill is the son of the testator, unborn at the date of the decree divorcing father" and mother. The date of his birth was August 17, 1892;…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Burley v. McGoughIllinois Supreme Court · 1885

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