Black v. Maxwell

Haymond, Judge:

This appeal presents the question of the validity, as a holographic will, of a document wholly in the handwriting of Frank P. Maxwell, a well to do resident of Upshur County, who departed this life on February 14, 1946. The written instrument in question bears date the 11th day of February, 1946, and is attached to and pasted on a single sheet of paper upon which appear, also in the handwriting of the decedent, writings designated as his last will and testament dated September 8, 1944, and as a codicil to that will, dated February 9, 1946. Each of these two instruments…