Brooking v. Brooking

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Tazewell county admitting to probate the last will and testament of John G. Brooking, Sr., deceased, which devised several tracts of real estate. The will was duly admitted to probate in the county court of said county on November 6, 1944, and the order entered that letters testamentary issue to Howard Brooking, a son of the decedent. An appeal from that order was taken to the circuit court by the appellants, who were also sons of the deceased.

At the hearing in the circuit court on said appeal the only witness called was T. E.…