In Re Campbell's Will

This case has been in this Court once before upon appeal by proponents from a verdict and judgment for contestants. In re Campbell’s Will, 100 Vt. 395, 138 Atl. 725, 54 A. L. R. 1369. It is now here upon an appeal by contestants from a verdict and judgment for proponents.

The instrument in question purports to be a will and is in the usual form of such documents, but that part thereof where the signatures of a maker and of witnesses and the attestation clause would naturally come, is mutilated and torn out, so that the document is wholly wanting in the formalities of due execution.

The record…