Boggess v. McCraughey

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The question is whether a portion of an undelivered holographic letter is a will. On an appeal from an order of probate, the appellants proved some circumstances surrounding the parties and the writing of the letter. In the absence of countervailing evidence, the court directed a verdict and adjudged the relevant portion to be a will. The contest is prosecuted by-the decedent’s sisters, brother, nieces and nephews against the surviving husband, and Mrs. Ethel Morgan and her brother, Andrew McCray, a niece and nephew, who had been reared by…