Studstill v. Studstill

Clark, Judge.

This appeal is by a caveatrix whose attack upon the grant of a year’s support from the estate of J. Randall Studstill to testator’s widow was denied in the court of ordinary and subsequently in her de novo appeal to the superior court. The question for decision by us is the correctness of the trial court’s ruling that as a matter of law the testamentary document’s terms did not require the widow to make an election between its provisions and a year’s support and the consequent ruling that the will was therefore not admissible as evidence in the superior court trial.

The will dated…