Cocke's Administrator v. Loyall

This is an appeal from two decrees of the Circuit Court of Louisa county, and presents the following case:

Mrs. Ellen A. Cocke departed this life in March, 1925, without issue, leaving an estate of about $2,000. A short time after the death of Mrs. Cocke, L. L. *339Loyall produced before the clerk of the circuit court for probate a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Mrs. Cocke, by the terms of which her estate, real and personal, was devised and bequeathed to Loyall, and he appointed her executor, without security. No objection being urged, the clerk admitted the…