Teater v. Newman

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Judge

(dissenting).

Regretfully, I must respectfully dissent from the result reached by the majority opinion. As I see it, there are two propositions which require resolution in this case. The first one is: Is it lawful in Kentucky for a testator to adopt his previously written signature as the effective signature of a will drawn after the time when the signature was first written? Although the majority opinion, by footnote, avoids this question, one must assume that the question requires an affirmative answer, since the rest of the majority opinion could easily be omitted…