Norton v. Liddell

HARWOOD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in the amount of $25,000 rendered pursuant to a jury trial involving the contest of a claim filed against the estate of C. C. Liddell, deceased.

C. C. Liddell died on 21 February 1963. On 25 February 1963, Mark Norton, the named executor of the purported will of C. C. Liddell, filed a petition for probate of the will which bore the date of 8 October 1962.

On 5 April 1963, James S. Liddell, one of the appellees here filed a contest of the will, alleging it was not the true will of C. C. Liddell, but to the contrary a purported will of C. C.…