Branch v. Branch

In December, 1937, Earley Branch and Andrew Branch filed their bill against Rosa Branch, in her own right and as the executrix of the estate of George Branch, deceased, to impeach and set aside the will of the decedent.

*415The bill was in the barest skeleton form. The complainants alleged that the defendant, without any notice to them, had “offered for probate,” in the clerk’s office of the Corporation Court of the city of Newport News, a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of George Branch, their late brother, bearing date of November 12, 1932; that the paper writing was…