Shacklett v. Roller
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Rockingham county, pronounced October 21, 1898, in a suit in chancery, wherein two of the appellees were the complainants, and the appellants and others wei*e the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The object of this suit was to set up or restore the will of Samuel Shacldett, deceased, which it was alleged he had made several years before his death and afterwards destroyed in the last year of his life, when he was mentally incompetent to revoke a will. The appellant, who was a defendant in the trial court, admitted in her answer the execution of a will and its destruction by the testator, but denied that it was destroyed when he was incapable of revoking it, or that its contents were correctly stated in the bill.
Where it appears that a person has made a will which cannot be found after…
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