Campbell v. Knott

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment upon a verdict that an instrument probated as the will of Virgie or Virginia Burrus is genuine and was properly executed.

The testatrix was an elderly colored woman of Hopkinsville, who died November 6, 1956. The instrument, dated October 22, 1956, devised her residence to Louanna Knott, who is referred to as “my foster daughter,” though she did not occupy that relationship in the legal sense as the child of another person who was reared as one’s own. The validity of the will was contested by the decedent’s three brothers, her heirs.

Mrs.…