Yowell v. Hunter

This is an appeal by the proponents from a decree of the circuit court of Piatt County which set aside an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Evangeline Hunter, deceased, on the ground that said instrument was forged by writing the language and body of the same around the penciled signature of the testator. A freehold being involved, the appeal is perfected to this court.

Evangeline Hunter died on November 18, 1945, in a hospital at Lebanon, Indiana. At the time of her death she and her husband, Benjamin F. Hunter, whom she had married in 1924, were residents of Indiana…