Melvin v. Simington

McLUCAS, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal taken from a judgment in favor of respondent on a petition for revocation of probate of the will of M. E. Melvin, deceased. The contest was on three grounds: First, that the decedent was of unsound mind at the time of the execution of the will; second, that the purported will was not executed in the manner required by law, in that the purported will was not, in the form in which it now appears, signed by the decedent in the presence of the witnesses, nor signed by the witnesses in the presence of the deceased; third, that the execution of the purported…