Hopkins v. Wampler
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Rockingham ■county upon the trial of an issue devisavit vel non. Judgment for the plaintiffs. Defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
The plaintiffs in error, J. H. Hopkins and Susannah Hildebrand, proponents of a paper writing purporting to be the last will of Amanda E. Miller, deceased, bring error to the final sentence and judgment of the trial court approving the finding of the jury, on an issue devisavit vel non, that said paper was not, nor was any part thereof, the true last will of Amanda E. Miller.
The sole question submitted to the jury was the testamentary capacity of the testatrix, and the principal error assigned relates to the ruling of the court in the matter of the degree of proof which rested upon the…
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