In Re the Probate of the Will of Allen

Upon this appeal the contestants, next of kin of Flora J. Allen, deceased, challenged the validity of the decree admitting to probate as a last will and testament certain writings of hers on the general ground that the record is lacking in proof that the writings probated as a will constitute a single instrument which the testatrix executed as her will. These writings are in the testatrix’s own hand and are on sheets of legal cap paper which, when the will was found, were fastened together only by five metal clips slipped over, but not piercing, the ends of the sheets on which the testatrix…