Weaver v. Grant

ADAMS, Justice.

This appeal is from the denial of a petition to probate a will in a will contest removed to the Circuit Court of Randolph County. At a hearing without a jury, the trial judge found that the purported second witness to the will did not intend his signature to be that of an attesting witness. Proponents and contestants of the will are the nieces and nephews of the would-be testatrix, Bernice Elder, who died in August of 1979.

*16On August 28, 1979, Joe Tom Burns, District Judge of Randolph County and a former practicing attorney in Wedowee, Alabama, visited Mrs. Elder’s home to…