Frazier v. Hughes

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Knight

— Reversing.

Statement of the Case.

Lizzie Rankin, formerly Lizzie Harvey, a colored woman, and, as indicated from her will, an illiterate one, died a resident of Henderson County, Kentucky, on April 17, 1942, survived by her husband, George Rankin, who died in 1945. She left a holographic will written on tablet paper with a pencil. Since there is no dispute as to the validity of the will, it will not be copied in full. It is sufficient to say that it is clearly manifest from reading the will as a whole that she intended to and did devise her home, the…