Williams v. Bridgeford

This canse involves an appeal in error by Coreda Williams, nominated as executrix under a will of Martha Thornton dated February 13, 1953, and Lucinda K. Terrell, a minor, suing by next friend who was a beneficiary under the provision of said will, from the verdict of a jury and judgment based thereon in the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, sustaining as the last will and testament of said Martha Thornton a paper writing dated March 31, 1961, in which Harry Bridgeford is named executor.

The cause concerns a will contest, tried in the Circuit Court, on issues of deviscwit vel non,…